My friends are leaving :-((

September 14, 2004 on 5:09 am

– PS. This is indeed the first time I really blog at this page. The other posts were link to the news I read from the internet. —

I won’t consider today to be the best day ever since I came to Japan. Workload-wise, there is no difference from the other days [been 2 weeks since I mess around with the gate level simulation problem, and I haven’t even been able to locate the cause of the problem — let alone solving the problem -( (], but today is the last day for Dani and Mulyanto at the Kunieda Lab. Their study-exchange period is over, and they went home to Indonesia tomorrow for good. Been more than four months since I get to know them, and I am going to sorely missed their absence. Already had that feeling when I did the Isya’ prayer tonight. Alone. Usually it was Dani who remind me whenever jama’ah prayer time is coming.

Good luck to both of you … hope we can still meet sometimes later when I have chance to went home to Indonesia.
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CNET: Five tech firms at a crossroads

September 10, 2004 on 8:03 pm

Good articles over 5 companies (Tivo and PalmSource are among those five that I know) that were innovators. Quote: “Each sells a product or service considered brilliant. Each has drawn raves from consumers …. But that’s not always enough.” Competitors (or we can blatantly said copycat) are lurking behind to take (and even overtake) their market shares.
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NEWS.context

What’s new:
Apple used to own the home computer market. Today it’s in single digits. Brilliant first movers often falter as the rivals catch up.

Bottom line:
Five companies flashing all the brilliance of early Apple are reaching
the point when the wolves start nipping at their heels. Can they stay
ahead of the pack?
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PS. Been a while since I blog (and I knew it was long, because the URL disappears from the Mozilla’s location-bar auto-complete list -) . Anyway, another bomb explode in Jakarta yesterday -( (. It explodes in front of the Australian Embassy, and again, just as the previous bombs, the victims are all Indonesians -( (. (Note that it does not mean that I would support the bomber should the victims are Australians they are targetting to). Sad .. sad … sad .. -(

And so is another slaughter in Beslan, Russia last week. Many victims were children. What a world we are living now -( .
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