22 February 2007

Cisco wifi products popular with businesses

Was talking about wireless or wifi network solutions with my friend who's a network engineer and discovered that their company uses Cisco products.

I was curious because I knbow of a few other guys who also use Cisco networking solutions in their office. This includes voip and video conferencing.

Cisco is one of the World's largest suppliers of secure networking equipment and network management for the Internet. Even though their products are comparatively more expensive most businesses prefer their products. Besides the high quality products, there is another reason for this - their great support.

While going through their site, I came across this video on the architectural approach in the data centre. In this 4 minute video, Dante Malagrino explains how their Network Architecture facilitates the adoption of new IT strategies. Check it out

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Plug for Zaza

Our dear friend Zaza has been blogging since April 2006 in her blog "Handling Holland". She writes about how she's coping with life in a foreign land, as a housewife and as a mother to cute little baby Aidan.


She was a successful entrepreneur in Malaysia running her own gifts business before packing it all up to follow her husband (and our friend too) Hardy to Holland.

She is really really kind hearted and we will always be indebted to her for a very special favour. Zaza you know what I am referring to.

Hardy you are a very lucky guy.

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Why go for a SEO company

Today, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become the hottest thing in the Internet business and companies offering SEO services have mushroomed. Almost everybody is getting into the act, offering some sort of service related to improving search engine rankings.

However you must be aware that many of these so called SEO experts are individual webmaster and designers who lack the experience and most importantly, the resources to deliver good results for competitive keywords.

According to the Bay Bay Street SEO Company, an SEO expert is "someone with extensive studies in search engine indexing algorithms and experience in applying SEO techniques to Web sites."

I recommend that you go for SEO Companies which are specialized in this area and have the experience in delivering search engine optimization strategies. In the end, you will find that the results do indeed justify the cost of hiring an SEO company. On the other hand, you will also find some great freelancers out there who can deliver similar results if not more than the SEO companies for a fraction of the cost charged by the companies. This is because they have lesser overheads to cover. Several of these have worked with bigger companies before deciding to strike it out on their own. It is a good idea to check out the portfolio of these "SEO experts" as well. You might be pleasantly surprised.

Gene detectives on BBC

Gene Detectives is a new series on BBC 1 (Channel 101 on Sky) at 9:15 am. In the show, genealogy expert, Anthony Adolph helps people track down long lost relatives.

We are shown three possible candidates, one of which is the missing relative. I am pretty sure the producers of the show knew who the real relative is but they keep the secret hidden till the last moment. Of course they can tell us straight away who the real relative is but then it won't be that interesting and they won't have a show either.

It's quite emotional and nice to see fathers reunited with daughters and sisters with their long lost brothers.

Anyway, I was recently contacted by someone who had the same family name as mine. The guy has traced back his branch of the family back to 1760. He had traced back the family name back to a little place called Brandon in Suffolk, England, where they had lived from 1800 onwards until about 1965.

It's really surprising because that means that we have two families with the same surname on almost opposite sides of the planet - one is obviously British and another Asian (my family).

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21 February 2007

Best RockStartup episode

I am a regular visitor to RockStartup.com, hoping to to catch the latest update. In case you haven't heard, this online reality show provides glimpses of how a Web 2 company (Payperpost) works - life in the office, events, interacting with customers and of course the people who work there.

So far there has been 11 episodes but my favourite has to be the 10th. Of course, everyday life in the office clips are interesting too but what I really want to see are the staff working under pressure in a crisis.



in this video, we see the programmers working under pressure trying to deliver updates to PayPerPost.com in time for Ted's board meeting. Ted (the CEO) is clearly not happy when Peter (Director of coding stuff) tells him that the site is down.

In the end everything goes well. I was surprised to learn that Ted doesn't have a room of his own and it seems like he is in one of the cubicles along with the rest of the guys in the company. I really respect that.

I would love to have one of those Big A** monitors like they have in the clip.



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20 February 2007

I am not a spammer

However, several Malaysian blogs running on Word Press seem to think so.

Trying to leave a comment on these blogs gives me the following warning:
Sorry, but your comment has been flagged by the spam filter running on this blog: this might be an error, in which case all apologies. Your comment will be presented to the blog admin who will be able to restore it immediately.
You may want to contact the blog admin via e-mail to notify him.

Not sure what spam filter these people are using but I am definitely not a spammer.

It really turns me off and I do notify the blog owners about this problem. However, if they don't seem to pay attention, I just don't leave comments and become another blurker.

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Post classifieds and build a blog

Itsmymarket.com is a new UK focused classifieds ad site and is the trading name for Community Ads Online Ltd. Though basically an ads site, it offers much more than free classified listings. The company positions itself as a community based service offering Community Websites, News, Events, Weather forecasts and much more. You can even build a blog too.

They run some photographic competitions from time to time, though none were up last time I checked. Check out the nice photograph submissions of past competitions.

The ads range from houses for sale to jobs. On checking some of the ads, found out that most of them are from people/ companies in the Norfolk, Cornwall and Cambridgeshire areas. Hopefully, there will be more ads from people in other parts of UK as the website becomes more popular.

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