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Streaming and Digital Media – Understanding the Business and Technology by Dan Rayburn

Posted in Book Review on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

NAB Executive Technology Briefings : Streaming and Digital Media by Dan Rayburn is different from all other technology-centric books that I have. As the name Executive Technology Briefings may suggest, it combines both business and technology into a single big picture, that illustrates well how one may affect the other.
Dan Rayburn in this book says, [...]

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The Race for a New Game Machine

Posted in Book Review on February 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »

In previous post, I had moved.
In this post, I am moved.
I have just finished reading a splendid book titled “The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3″ written by ex-IBMer David Shippy.

This book is about the development of Cell processor by STI (Sony, Toshiba, IBM) alliance. [...]

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The Search by John Battelle

Posted in Book Review on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It may seem a little too late to be reading this book, now that all the hypes about Google had cooled down somewhat. But while mainly focusing on Google, this book is about Search. About us, hundreds of millions Internet users entering keywords in our preferred search engines, creating a massive Database of Intentions from [...]

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The Darkmoon by Julia Gray

Posted in Book Review on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Darkmoon by Julia Gray is the first book of five of The Guardian Cycle. It’s a fantasy. After a year of reading manuals, standards, legal documents and textbooks, I was hoping for an escape from reality by reading a fantasy. I was hoping for the effect that I had when I was reading Magician, [...]

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I love Excel

Posted in Book Review, Personal, Programming, Work, tagged , , , on September 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »

When I first started out at my job, I moaned “I was born to excel, not to do Excel”. I didn’t know why I had to do silly things like adding and removing specific data from a worksheet, merging tables, rerepresenting data in a new format and so on.
At the point when it became unbearable, [...]

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My First Study of Economics.

Posted in Book Review, Go, Ideas, Personal, tagged , , on September 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Nothing is better than a book that teaches, excites and encourages critical thinking all at the same time. And this book that I borrowed from UTM library, Essential Foundations of Economics is exactly that. I shunned the study of economics during my A-Level and University for a total of six years. But now this book presents [...]

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Machine Invasion. Human Outsmarted?

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Book Review, Go, Ideas, Weiqi, tagged , , , , , , , on August 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »

From American Go Association newsletter,
COMPUTER BEATS PRO AT U.S. GO CONGRESS: In a historic achievement, the MoGo computer program defeated Myungwan Kim 8P (l) Thursday afternoon by 1.5 points in a 9-stone game billed as “Humanity’s Last Stand?” “It played really well,” said Kim, who estimated MoGo’s current strength at “two or maybe three dan,” [...]

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Book Review : Making Friends

Posted in Book Review, tagged , , , on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

 
Putting a review for this book is rather embarrassing as it may suggest that I am having problems with making friends even after 25 years of living. In fact my big ego almost denied me from buying this book which costed me RM36.00 after 15% discount from MPH. But, as I had read the first chapter [...]

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