en-us http://www.kwpro.net/index.php KWPro.net http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2010/2/11/1599_The_Next_True_Paradigms_of_TechnologyInventions.html Find something that inconveniences you. Determine if that inconvenience can be solved through an existing service or product (whether you pay or not) If the service or product does not exist, figure out if you can automate it. ... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:45:18 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2010/2/11/1599_The_Next_True_Paradigms_of_TechnologyInventions.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2009/4/22/1555_Tech_Job_Count_For_Past_Few_Months.html This is pretty depressing. And it looks like things are getting worse:56764 | 2009/1/22 || 56539 | 2009/1/23 || 56957 | 2009/1/24 || 56864 | 2009/1/25 || 56829 | 2009/1/26 || 57144 | 2009/1/27 || 57613 | 2009/1/28 || 57616 | 2009/1/29 || 57522 | 200... Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:53:39 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2009/4/22/1555_Tech_Job_Count_For_Past_Few_Months.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2009/4/19/1549_Twitter__Facebook_-_Cool_Use_of_Tech.html Twitter account to my blog here with a nice little Twitter wrapper that you can find here. So what I did was just publish the title of my blogs and the link. Twitter does a nice little job of converting long URLs into smaller ones with TinyURL (I p... Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:29:54 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2009/4/19/1549_Twitter__Facebook_-_Cool_Use_of_Tech.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/5/3/1366_An_Idea_for_Networking_2.0.html In a country like the US, logistics have played a key political point in deciding how infrastructure is laid out and has forced many people to be enslaved to a far slower internet compared to countries like Japan or Korea. Personally, I feel tha... Sat, 03 May 2008 02:54:21 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/5/3/1366_An_Idea_for_Networking_2.0.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/5/3/1365_Detroit_Is_Screwed_But_Can_American_Ingeniusness_Save_A_Dying_Industry.html Roadster. But the chief selling point of this two door baby is that's got an all electric engine. Of course, part of the hoopla has been the help of investors Sergie Brin and Larry Page of Google fame. But this isn't the only player in this game... Sat, 03 May 2008 02:35:00 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/5/3/1365_Detroit_Is_Screwed_But_Can_American_Ingeniusness_Save_A_Dying_Industry.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/3/7/1321_For_Once_I_Agree_With_Mr._Schwartz.html local jobs. However, I am for allowing foreigners to work within the country as it helps improve their understanding of American business, creates more cultural diversity in the workplace and gives people more opportunities. Not to mention increasi... Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:25:53 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/3/7/1321_For_Once_I_Agree_With_Mr._Schwartz.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/3/7/1316_A_Gauge_For_Web_2.0_Emerging_Technologies.html ... Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:34:56 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/3/7/1316_A_Gauge_For_Web_2.0_Emerging_Technologies.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/23/1301_What_Is_A_Good_CIOCTO.html To be perfectly honest, I've worked in few companies that had CIOs. I have worked in companies that had CTOs and I do think the domains cross over. Perhaps, we need to explore general characteristics of what may describe a "technological l... Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:06:43 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/23/1301_What_Is_A_Good_CIOCTO.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/9/1273_Forget_Social_Go_With_Internet_Driven_Appliances.html A more difficult path that should be explored is appliances. We've started already with the easy things like TV and media players. However, I haven't seen enough innovation things like home appliances where a refrigerator is the same kind of re... Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:05:46 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/9/1273_Forget_Social_Go_With_Internet_Driven_Appliances.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/7/1266_The_Fine_Art_of_Invention.html So let me give all my billions of readers out there my little insight on how my wonderful ideas sprout from my tiny neuron in my skull: I just look at things that annoy me and figure out how to not make them annoy me as much. That's it!!!!!... Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:41:08 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/7/1266_The_Fine_Art_of_Invention.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/7/1265_A_Great_Idea_for_the_Japanese_Real_Estate_Market.html Overall though, the fact that this annoyed the hell out of me gave natural rise to a great idea (which is where all my great ideas come from). First, I think it's absolutely idiotic for these real estate agencies to hand people a booklet and exp... Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:09:31 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/7/1265_A_Great_Idea_for_the_Japanese_Real_Estate_Market.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/4/1260_I_Am_A_Consumer_of_the_Web_Generation.html ... Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:18:47 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/4/1260_I_Am_A_Consumer_of_the_Web_Generation.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/1/1259_outsourcing_to_India_and_what_that_means.html When I was working at Nikko Citigroup, we had outsourced part of our system administration duties to WiPro for an audit project. On paper, if you saw their resumes, they were littered with credentials and experience. However, in practice these ... Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:07:20 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/2/1/1259_outsourcing_to_India_and_what_that_means.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/30/1254_The_Internet_Frontier.html the better thing about the internet is that i'm helping to contribute the virtual sand to create the ground, the foundation of the virtual cities that will grow in the future. this is progress.]]>... Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:36:48 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/30/1254_The_Internet_Frontier.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/23/1246_Virigin_Galactic_Unveils_SpaceShipTwo.html SpaceShipTwo, which is the much anticipated more or less first ever publicly available ship for space tourism. I'm not sure about the practicality of what they intend though. Currently, the design only allows for 4 minutes of weightlessness in sp... Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:14:24 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/23/1246_Virigin_Galactic_Unveils_SpaceShipTwo.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/19/1237_Note_To_SkypeEbay_and_AppleiPhone_Integrate.html iPhone, in LA via Skype. Apparently, my number appears as some random gibberish when the caller receives my Skype Out call. This is trash. Apple should go into a partnership with Skype/Ebay to integrate the service with Skype. There is a service ... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:58:55 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/19/1237_Note_To_SkypeEbay_and_AppleiPhone_Integrate.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/18/1234_Cool_Stuff_At_Work.html Besides, improving my programming skills, I also try to improve my other skills like system administration. For instance, this week I got a chance to really work with NFS, IPTables/Firewalls, and more of the security aspects of Mysql. And just ... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:04:04 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/18/1234_Cool_Stuff_At_Work.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/5/1218_Other_Tech_Companies_for_2008.html Microsoft focusing on Webtop applications. No, as I mentioned Microsoft should shift their strategy completely away from the online area and let Yahoo, Google and other smaller ventures take over that space. The better area should be in app... Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:07:26 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/5/1218_Other_Tech_Companies_for_2008.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/2/1212_Microsofts_Strategy_for_2008_And_Beyond.html Since I'm working on these 2008 strategies, I decided to give some advice to Microsoft: kill MSN. Or rather stop putting anymore money into it. Stop trying to compete against Yahoo and Google. Vista was a huge flop and everyone knew it. DRM, lock... Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:47:09 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2008/1/2/1212_Microsofts_Strategy_for_2008_And_Beyond.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2007/12/29/1205_2008_Early_Predictions.html 1. Build my own application in the hopes of someone buying it out 2. Focusing the entire year on getting my Japanese level up 3. Improving on my writing 1) is something that is always too hard to put a bet on. I've built several ap... Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:02:09 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2007/12/29/1205_2008_Early_Predictions.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2007/12/28/1203_Netscape_Killed_by_AOL.html I can't say that I'm said for Netscape's death as they really weren't producing anything noteworthy in the past few years. Their portal site, browser and Digg clones have all been failures, so it isn't a surprise that AOL let them go. That sa... Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:23:32 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2007/12/28/1203_Netscape_Killed_by_AOL.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2007/11/5/1149_Intels_Former_CEO_and_I_agree.html All things considered, the fact that the computer industry has little history compared with the medical one says a lot. It's disgusting watching companies put out products that have little visible benefits whereas an iPod can give one instant gr... Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:33:20 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2007/11/5/1149_Intels_Former_CEO_and_I_agree.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2007/10/14/1131_Inventions_of_Tomorrow_AKA_a_housewifes_dream.html Something that handles and sorts your mail. I think paper mail should just go away regardless, even official documents because we have computers! That said, if we can't do away with the post office, mail man, hand written letters from your gr... Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:41:21 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2007/10/14/1131_Inventions_of_Tomorrow_AKA_a_housewifes_dream.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2006/10/17/880_googles_solar_bid.html ... Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:48:33 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2006/10/17/880_googles_solar_bid.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2006/4/3/741_toyotas_hybrid_goals.html ... Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:02:17 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2006/4/3/741_toyotas_hybrid_goals.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/11/21/643_texas_suing_sony_for_rootkit.html ... Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:28:05 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/11/21/643_texas_suing_sony_for_rootkit.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/11/4/615_dont_buy_Sony.html ... Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:27:12 -0700 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/11/4/615_dont_buy_Sony.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/9/3/558_heres_a_cool_one_by_honda.html ... Sat, 03 Sep 2005 15:32:09 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/9/3/558_heres_a_cool_one_by_honda.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/7/10/506_Tcehnology_Today.html ... Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:53:34 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/7/10/506_Tcehnology_Today.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/6/14/470_Strength_Augmentation_For_the_Disabled.html ... Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:34:20 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/6/14/470_Strength_Augmentation_For_the_Disabled.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/4/14/376_Google_Maps.html ... Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:50:03 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2005/4/14/376_Google_Maps.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2004/6/10/123_iRiver_and_Nomad_MuVo.html ... Thu, 10 Jun 2004 01:18:02 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2004/6/10/123_iRiver_and_Nomad_MuVo.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2004/5/16/84_Household_Data_Centers.html ... Sun, 16 May 2004 22:46:46 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2004/5/16/84_Household_Data_Centers.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2004/5/15/80_First_Privately_Manned_Rocket_In_Space.html ... Sat, 15 May 2004 16:49:14 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2004/5/15/80_First_Privately_Manned_Rocket_In_Space.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2004/5/11/71_Dog_Translation_Keitai.html ... Tue, 11 May 2004 21:19:07 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2004/5/11/71_Dog_Translation_Keitai.html http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2004/5/5/62_Sonys_upcoming_music_store.html ... Wed, 05 May 2004 12:08:49 -0600 http://www.kwpro.net/blogs/2004/5/5/62_Sonys_upcoming_music_store.html