slow blogging for remainder of July & Aug

Will be enjoying the warmth for a while. Hopefully my golf game will make a comeback 💡

OECD Communications Outlook 2007 Is Out

The annual OECD Communications report is out. Finding the link to download the 316 page "free browse version" is kind of cryptic. Here it is "download free version of OECD Comm'n Outlook 2007". Happy Reading 🙂 OECD Communications Outlook 2007: "The OECD Communications Outlook 2007 presents the most recent comparable data on communication sector performance...

Blast From the Past: Presentation Notes for “eng-fizz-mentor-night-030408”

I just came across my presentation notes for a talk with UBC Eng Phys Students back in '03. It's cool to me 'cause I still get good reviews wrt/ presentation ( and it is 4 years old ). Most people like the Sedin Twins association. It's still very relevant.  It is in bullet form ---------------------...

Giving Xubuntu a Try

I've been wanting to try out Linux for a while now, but I've never had a compelling reason to dig in. Turns out that my kids are the compelling reason. We just don't have enough computers that can connect to the Internet, do homework, Chat on MSN, play games, etc. I've decided to try to...

NPU Positioning – Where do they win?

I've had negative views of NPUs for over a decade and I can't shuffle them off. A decade ago when I was supposed to recommend an NPU vendor to acquire I couldn't do it. I put my vote on QED which was providing general purpose RM5k and RM7k MIPS CPUs. I posted negatively on NPUs...