Sea-tech Blog 0.1

Earlier on today, somehow one of the mooring project manager mentioned a number of problem on recovering our deepwater mooring from the North Sea, ideas start appearing in my head and trying to make them into constructive thought.  So this blog idea has comng back to me, so I am gonna start a Sea Tech section under this blog.  So watch this space about my thought here for more.

Blog 2.0 - Has iPhone destroyed i-mode?

Since the launch of i-mode service from the Japanese mobile operator NTT Domoco, with the straight to the point web content instead of the WAP service which never really hit-off.  In the matter of fact, I was proud to say my first mobile was WAP enable, and this was Year 2000.  Why have I brought this up,  the point is that I never really get to use WAP as a source of my media information channel.  WAP was slow, screen was often too small to read, even for a young person, imagine what it is like for the relative older population, as our eye sights do get worse with our aging (Sorry to bring this sad fact into the blog, afraid none of us can avoid it).  This is not it, the data charges were very expensive at  the time.

The matter of fact, I barely notice people mentioning i-mode anymore.  My mobile communication lecturer, Dr. David Pearce's (He was one tough lecturer, his exams was the hardest amongst all the exams.) used to praise the i-mode, how well it deliver our data in a format which is efficient enough for mobile user, also 3G was existed at that point, but no mobile phone in the market can really use the full capability of the bandwidth until the 3G dongle and iPhone were introduce with the full browser.

With these full browser revolution and along with the RIM's 'Playbook' and Android's capability of playing flash enable website, improving the accessibility of website.   Does this mean i-mode is dead?  Yes, I think so.

Blog 1.0, MS-DOS 30th Anniversary week!

Does anyone remember MS-DOS such operating system?  The reason that I brought it up is because next week is the 30th anniversary of the birth of DOS.  That was before the time of we so call 'Windows' along the evolution of Microsoft Windows, which is a multi-task OS instead of DOS being a single-task OS which only can run one application at a time.  Conventional memory of 640K for storing the basic function, if you need anymore you need to use HIMEM.SYS and re-write your AUTOEXEC.BAT AND CONFIG.SYS in order to enable your extended memory, I still remember most desktop PC typically only comes and support up to somewhat 4Mb of RAM on the system board and most PCs come with 4Gb of RAM as standard now.  Anyway, I'm not gonna write too much here today, as my climate project is still requires plenty of TLC.  So, in the mean time, check out my climate blog @ http://myclimatechangeproject.blogspot.com :)

Cheerio....

Blog note 0.1

'Hello world!'  This is probably is the first function that most programmer learned as their first program, guess I learned this through my C programming.  Anyhow, this is not a programming blog, but a technological idea blog, I just wanted to quote this because it reminded me of this is the first post of my tech blog and I guess I want it to greet the bright new world.