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Not too long ago, when high definition video format come about, (naturally starting with Shawshank Redemption, no less!) a new kind of war format broke. The battle was for the complete domination of optical disk format, with the main contenders being HD-DVD and Blue-Ray. You may google it up for more info.

What I want to highlight is that both supporter of those format work so hard to be the dominant format that they lose sight of what is important, the video content itself! Many years later, nobody care about these optical disks. High definition video won, and the internet, mobile phones and satellite broadcasting become the preferred delivery of these high def content.

Well, this is just a reminder to myself to look beyond the delivery method of the value and focus on the value that it delivers. Delivery methods changes frequently, but the core value that it deliver, really doesn’t change that much. Take our need to know what happen around us. It was once smoke signal, followed much later by newspaper and now twitter, but what we get from it is still the same, news.

Perhaps, despite all the technology, human has largely remains the same. We’re just too lazy to change.

In my work, I have to go through tons of resume to find great people to work join our team. It isn’t as easy as you might think. Some people might actually do have what it takes, and can actually do the job well, but the way they present themselves, their resume, they way the talk and dress might not do them justice.

As an employer, I am always on the side of cautious. Do understand that as employer, we are actually scared to get that offer letter out. Just work a little harder and you will be fine.

I could not have summarize it better than this. http://www.howtonailaninterview.com/

I am curretly using P1 as my primary broadband provider at home. This isn’t a review, but rather a rant on one particular issue with P1 broadband.

For the most part, P1 is OK. During the first week of using their service, it wickedly fast. For 1.2 Mbps package, I can consistantly hit 900 kbps. On international sites, speed of 500-700 kbps is not uncommon. But obviously as more as more people are signing up, I rarely see the 900 kbps nowadays, with 600-ish being a norm. These figure, isn’t bad at all, ad is comparable to StreamyX on a good day. All and all, it does edge StreamyX slightly.

Now, the bad news. For some reason, P1 seems to enjoy a late night detour. Almost every night, the service will go down at some wee hours in the morning, typically 15 to 30 minutes, sometimes up to an hour and even a few times a day. The excuse given is ‘maintenence mode’, which is acceptable if it was done on a monthly, or even a weekly basis, but come on, this is becoming a daily occurace. P1 might think that no one uses the internet at night and it is ok to disrupt the service, but imagine is TNB uses the same logic. Hey, at 3 am, most people are asleep right ?, lets cut off the electricity for a while, no one will notice.

My worry is that, there is no sign of this getting any better and P1 seems to take it for granted that no one complaint. So, here I am now. For those thinking of signing up with P1 and work late at night, be prepare to have your chat with your business partner across the globe to be cut short.

Th Star on Saturday carry a feature on broadband penetration in Malaysia. I feel bad for the reporter, because, really what is there to write about ? So, they throw in a couple of articles on what you can do with high speed internet, (sigh!).

While everyone blame each other and making promises, I flip to the next section knowing that, I better not hold my breath, waiting for any improvement, anytime soon.

Yes, you heard me. I tried to be patient, but I am just too damn annoyed by now. Chedet.com is run by a bunch or amateurs!. First of all, why the heck did you guys moved from .com to .cc . Do you guys even have a clue what a .cc is ? Here, let me help, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cc

.cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory.

Why would a Malaysian politician use a .cc ? A .com is good enough. I remember, when they change it, I lose all my rss feed and have to configure everything all over again. As I type this, they just changed it to .co.cc which is a bloody redirection service, typical amateur.

Oh yes, this bunch of amateur also at one point uses http://test.chedet.com as a live production url. Shocking.. now, they happily apply redirection whenever they feel like it, with zero consideration for SEO. As I type this, the url is http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/ . Hello! we all know it is a blog, why change it to /chedetblog/ ? .

Why not use this url instead ?. http://test.chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/

Another thing that annoys me is me, such a high traffic site can easily make a lot of money. Instead, this clueless amateur quote a ridiculous amount of advertising rate. Last time I check, it was RM 300 per day.

Enough rant. Some advice.

1. Let someone else run the site.
2. Just keep the damn site at http://chedet.com . DONE!
3. To make money, deploy Google AdSense. Charge a more reasonable rate. A full traffic stats need to be disclosed.

I have been staying with Digi and their slow (but reliable) Edge network all this while, hoping that, when they finally get their 3G act in order all this waiting would be worth it. So, I was a little excited when they finally account their broadband packages at http://www.digi.com.my/broadband/index.html .

Sadly, the excitement only last a couple of seconds. The 3G-based broadband is NOT accessible within my existing voice account. You will be given separate sim card purely for the broadband access which cannot be use with any voice services.

I don’t understand why DiGi would want to chase the most crowded space, land-based broadband when there are simply tons of other providers. I am sure there are thousands of Edge user who would readily upgrade their account to 3G-based network in an instance. Instead, they roll out yet another wireless internet services that require expensive modems. Opening this service to their existing customer, who already own 3G phones would greatly speed up their adoption. It will also reverse the voice user migration from their service to other 3G enabled provider.

I am so disappointed with DiGi..

Today, Seth Goden celebrate his 3,000th blog entry. I can only admire him. I started with the same ambition, a post a day, but not too long after that, I slack off, giving myself too many excuses and simply stop writing.

Momentum is a great thing and I need to get back at it.

I am going to make a short appearance at UiTm later tonight, at Kompleks Sains & Teknologi, 9.00pm. I will be talking a little bit about entrepreneurship and innovation. The organizer does send me some guidelines of what to talk about, but I’ll try to inspire rather than educate.

This guy inject such a powerful emotion into his every show. I wish I could put that much energy into every single line of code that I ever wrote. Unfortunately, in many cases, programming is a marathon, instead of a sprint. I am not sure you can sustain that much energy and emotion for a long period of time.

Every now and then, I manage to fill up my Saturday, doing almost absolutely nothing at all. And today was one of that day. I did try to get some code review done, reviewing our AdWords result, but it is close to midnight and I still feel the day is wasted.

A couple of major issues here.

1.  That idiot box! the junkfood for the mind! aka TV.
2. You have no plan for the day, at all. Even when you actually do something, you can’t quite pinpoint what it was.
3. At the beginning of the day, it seems like you have plenty of time for everything, but, by the time you realize that you actually has as much time as anyone else on any other day, it is already too late.

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