Archive for May, 2005

MSC Flagships Status

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

I wondered what’s the current status of the 7 MSC flagships. The official updates status was as of one year ago, I’d guess they’ll update that just in time (JIT) before the next MSC Expo in September 2005. ;-) Excerpts of that with some additional notes of mine …

Electronic Government - “PMS (Operational System, Managerial […]

QR Code vs Semacode

Saturday, May 7th, 2005

Japanese mobile phonecams users have been using QR Code for some time to scan/enter URLs from newspapers, magazines and business cards. However in the US a competing 2D barcode, Semacode, is a bit more known. The two sample 2D barcodes encode the URL http://www.sabre23t.com in both QR Code and Semacode format.

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Bill Gates’s mission to build a Google killer

Saturday, May 7th, 2005

Fred Vogelstein wrote in 2 May 2005 issue of Fortune the article subtitled “Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google killer. What got him so riled? The darling of search is moving into software—and that’s Microsoft’s turf.” He goes on to document the difficulty Microsoft is having trying to catchup […]

KLIA Aerotrain upgraded at RM11m per car

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

The Star’s Yip Yoke Teng on 4 May 2005 reported …
KLIA Engineering Team and Bombardier Transportation Malaysia Sdn Bhd are installing one car each to the two trains, which currently have two cars …
Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Bashir Ahmad told a press briefing at KLIA that passenger movement […]

Ozzies touring Malaysia

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

I’ve just found this nice weblog about an Australian couple, Darryn and Kip world tour 2005 that took them through Malaysia from 20 to 31 March 2005, on the way from Australia to Netherland. Some excerpts of their travel …
 

World Tour: Day 1, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - “We are staying in the Heritage Station Hotel, […]

Amtrak’s high-speed Acela trains sidelined until summer

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

America’s Amtrak high-speed trains, Acela Express, are sidelined until earliest summer 2005. The Risks Digest Volume 23 Issue 85 posting by Monty Solomon on 21 April 2005, highlighted the technology risks this shows …
Amtrak will not be able to run any of its high-speed trains until the summer because of delays in getting replacement […]

RapidKL Fare Increase 1 May 2005

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

RapidKL has just increased their fares today, as announced in NST on 30 Apr 2005 in a report by Eileen Ng …
  From Sunday, commuters will have to dig a little bit deeper into their pockets when they board any RapidKL bus.
  Rangkaian Pengangkutan Integrasi Deras Sdn Bhd (RapidKL), the company operating stage buses within the Klang […]