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I’ve been reading this case study on ISPUB.com called The Elderly and the Internet and it triggered an interesting thought in my mind; Would the Internet reduce the need for elderly care? Hence, the title of this post.

In Malaysia at present, sending ones elderly parent to a nursing home is still considered taboo. Personally, I have no qualms about being sent to a nursing home should I be a burden to my children. I’ve accepted the fact that I will grow old and die. I also accepted the fact that as I become older, handling me could be troublesome. Therefore, it might be better if I were to be handled by the professionals at a nursing home.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind has posted this interesting list of the top 10 forecasts for 2008 and beyond. I can’t say that I agree 100% with the points listed there but it makes for really interesting reading.

One of the most interesting point, in my opinion, would be that fashion will go wired as technologies and tastes converge to revolutionize the textile industry. It’s interesting because I see the textile industry to be one of the most technology-averse. Just check out the clothes you wear, or for argument’s sake, those that are being paraded on catwalks all over the world.

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KUALA LUMPUR, OCTOBER 30, 2007 – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that its WANJet® Wide Area Network (WAN) appliance is now available on F5’s powerful TMOS™ architecture. Integration with TMOS enables customers to implement high performance WAN optimization and acceleration functionality, and builds on F5’s broader Application Delivery Networking (ADN) solution portfolio. Along with the new 5.0 software release, customers now have a TMOS-enabled WANJet hardware platform, WANJet 300, to address branch office-to-data center optimization needs.

F5 is the only networking vendor that has taken a holistic approach to application acceleration, designing its products to work seamlessly with its entire application delivery infrastructure. Now running on the industry-leading TMOS architecture platform, WANJet inherits the benefits of F5’s iControl® open API with the 5.0 release enabling customers, partners, ISVs, and system integrators to develop unique application delivery solutions. As an additional benefit of this integration, WANJet appliances can be easily managed by Enterprise Manager™, F5’s centralized network device management appliance.

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KUALA LUMPUR – October 17, 2007 – SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today launched a new initiative intended to accelerate SonicWALL’s ongoing move into the enterprise market. The broad-based global initiative is based around SonicWALL’s E-Class solution set, a premium-performance line of secure networking, email security and remote network access offerings engineered to drive down the cost and complexity of deploying a secure infrastructure. Igniting this initiative, SonicWALL today launches a new family of multi-core processor firewalls that combine enterprise-class protection and performance in a single appliance: the NSA E7500, the NSA E6500 and the NSA E5500.

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While waiting for Streamyx’s arrival to my home, I’ve been logging on to the Internet occassionally using TMNet’s 1315 dialup service. Man, it’s a hellish experience! At 33.6kbps everything takes ages to load and I’m merely visiting web sites!

I tried to visit some friends’ blogs and just couldn’t believe how bloody long it took to render the pages! After a while, I started to wonder how long would HTNet take to load on dial-up connection and I took a peek. I’m glad to find out that it loads pretty quickly.

Optimizing your web site’s loading time isn’t difficult; it’s mostly an excercise of common sense; smaller pages load faster. Hence, we should make our pages as small as possible without sacrificing the information we want to present on them.

When it comes to load time, images are undeniably the biggest culprit. However, in this multimedia age, using images is an almost unavoidable excercise. The key to using images efficiently is to select the right image for a particular purpose.

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