Here’s a good one … A small village in the north of England, Argleton, has been causing confusion with an air of mystery. The simple reason is, is that the village simply doesn’t exist except in the world of Google.
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Curious case of Argleton town
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Speaking @ Jakarta
Thursday, November 5th, 2009I’m scheduled to speak at a Sun briefing event entitled “Turn Obstacles into Opportunities” in Jakarta on Nov 24th. The agenda will be about achieving efficiency and maximizing ROA (Return on Assets) through future-proofing data centers, consolidation, virtualization of IT environment to maximize utilization and improve efficiency.
In business terms, ROA is defined as an indicator of how profitable a company is in relative to its total assets. In other words, ROA measures how efficient a company’s management is at using its assets to generate earnings.
Taking this into the IT perspective, most of the time, IT is viewed as a cost and most of the time, IT is leveraging on technology assets to enable and support the business. Maximizing efficiency, utilization of technology assets or being able to support the critical business functions with less assets are ways to achieve ROA in the IT context.
I hope to share some of these insights with our Indonesian friends and clients during this event. See you all there!
Back from Cambodia
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
After spending 6 days in Siem Reap, a part of me is glad to be home, but another part of me weeps for the poor, hungry and homeless in Cambodia.
Besides visiting the heritage sites and admiring centuries old relics and temples, we have also visited a school supported by Caring for Cambodia, visited an orphanage and villages to see for ourselves the livelihood of the common Cambodians. I do believe that education is the best weapon against poverty. It may take years or decades before any significant improvements can be seen, but each step, no matter how tiny or small, is an important step forward.
To avoid creating a begging culture, we do not offer money directly but we help in other ways. A simple gesture of buying a pack of postcards from a child for $1 will help feed him/her for a day.
The most touching point on my trip was when a morning when we were returning from a sunrise shoot, on the way out from the temple, we saw a group of children going to school. Some were cycling, some were strolling. Most of them had worn out shirts and slippers but a few had no shoes on them. One small girl walked up to me and gave me a yellow flower. She said, “mister, can you give me $1… I am hungry and have not eaten”.
One day, I will bring my children to Cambodia and show them how fortunate they are.
New home for my Blogs
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Just relocated my blogs away from blogs.sun.com to this site yesterday.
New home, new contents… 
