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Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed.Prov 16:3

I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance. John 10:10

If gifts were deserved, they'd become rewards instead

It was a busy week last week, prepping for the big OD demo. OD demo's are always big effort activities as it involves meeting, planning for the scenarios, building the technical demo, rehersing with multi party role play then the actual day setup and delivery. This time around the demo had scenarios heavilly on UC, so we brought in the Unified Comms hardware, including USB hardphone, cameras and of course the Rountable, and hooked them all up in our demo network in the boadroom. Wires, hardware (5 laptops this time around), network equipment etc. The audience is always top level executives, so the pre-demo jitters are always high, and due to so many elements to get a successful demo done from equipment, people, murphy's law, prayer is always needed :).

Some random shots of the main venue area, below the boadroom we we ran the demo. Kinda "pesta" like with balloons, promoters, booths etc.

The video sample which was played during the event. One of the coolest videos I've come across (requires MS Silverlight browser plugin to view)

Manufacturing Future Vision

Overall we had a lot of fun, despite the hard work and stress before the event. Thank God it all went smoothly.

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April 04

Unboxing...

Had a bit of time this afternoon and decided to unbox the BMW Performance Brakes to take some pics...

Front 6 pot calipers

Front Discs

Front discs family tree

Front discs are not German made..

Rear 2 pot calipers

Rear discs are however German made

Rear caliper family tree

Rear caliper pots

The installation instructions not very BMW looking..

Still waiting for the 330i rear disc brake shields to arrive before I can get the install done... Can't wait!

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March 21

Who and where is my source of all things?

This week has been a remarkable week. As market conditions are getting tougher i.e. less opportunities and tougher competition in terms of price, we managed to close and secure approx half a million of services from a couple of contracts in a single week. There was a feeling of thankfullness and dependence on God for this and is a demonstration of what God has promised in Matthew 6:25-34.

I also found this article which I believe holds a lot of truth.. It has realigned my perspective of blessings, wealth and dependence on God.

The essence of business is that one is able to supply or service another person or company need and earn an income from that. The essence of generosity is that one is willing to do the same at no cost but just for the sense and joy of doing another service (a gift). The gift can be through an actual physical gift or through using one’s talents and gifting to be a blessing to others. Many people are so calculative and profit oriented that they have lost sight of the joy and love of doing good to another human being for free. The second key to prosperity is that one keeps on giving even without stopping when one has nothing left. At the least, one can give one’s time or service to another. There is always something good and loving we can do to another person.

When money has run out, time is still there, talents or skills still remain available to give to another. We should see God as our true paymaster and He rewards us for all that we have sown to help another. If you lose your job because of the recession, and have yet to find another job, don’t just sit around and get depressed. Of course, spend time with God and in prayer and worship. But also find ways to use your talents and gifts to help another person or company for free if they can’t afford it. As you keep on using your talents, skills and gifting to help other people, God will open doors of opportunities for you. Be generous to help others and others will be generous to help you, too.

The best jobs, the best businesses, the best opportunities to make money does not always come to the most talented, the most skilful, the smartest person, etc. It comes because of an opportunity which angels have created for you to be blessed. Promotion comes forth not from the east nor from the west, it comes from God who is the source of all blessings (Psalms 75:6). There is a spiritual law that causes the best opportunities and open doors to come to those who are most generous with their time and with their money. Those who are helpful to others are themselves greatly helped.

God is the source of all blessings"

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March 13

Live Meeting Part 2

We've been testing out doing Live Meetings with our Perth office using the MS Roundtable device. With the new MetroE link, latency to Perth is ~72ms and its perfect for VOIP and video conferencing. A screenshot taken from my mobile phone on the projected screen in the meeting room of Pas and Hemal in the Perth Vislab and us over the panaromic view from the Roundtable.

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March 02

TIMEdotCom Metro E

Took some pictures of TimeDotCom technicians replacing the Cat5E cables they pulled into the office with Fibre connectivity to support the new 10 Mbps BizNet Metro E service we recently subscribed to. What amazes me is the upfront infrastructure cost to the ISP to connect us to this new service. They provided a 12 core fibre cable from the PoP downstairs straight to our office. We are only using 2 cores. So another 10 cores unused. These fibre cables are thick, clumsy and non flexible compared to the Cat5E. So it wasn't easy pulling them into the office:

The technicians stripping up the cable to pull out 2 fibre cores

The new fibre patch panel they had to provide which terminates the new 12C Fibre cable

Technicians fusing the fibre optic cables to the patch panel using some thingamagik device.

The end result after about an hour of work. The fibre patch panel with the fibre to RJ45 transceiver (silver and black device on the lower shelf) which was also provided b TIME.

Overall we are seeing very good throughput and low latency (72ms to Perth!) with the Metro E link. Excellent service from TIMEdotCOM so far in the setup of the new link. The cost to us is ~RM1300 per month with a 1 year contract. Not bad at all considering the amount of infrastructure the ISP had to throw in for our setup.

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February 19

Cheap and Good OCS R2 Servers

Bought 2 Dell R200 1U servers for our OCS 2007 R2 upgrade here in the company, and am quite happy that each box came up to RM4.8k each. Spec'ed with Single XEON Quad core X3220, 4 GB 800Mhz ECC RAM, SATA RAID Controller , 2 x 250GB SATA II drives and dual Gig/E nics per box. Even the recent order of Latitude E6400 notebook with 4GB RAM, and 250GB 7.2k RPM SATA drive cost more than each server. Cheap and good hardware. Thats what I like..