In these couple of days, I have read several articles on the successfully launched of the new Firefox 2 browser. Many of those congratulate the record of over 2 million downloads in a day that made by Mozilla. Every Firefox fans now saying Firefox is gaining the market share at the expense of Internet Explorer (IE). However, here I want to say that the popularity of this browser may be attributed to its affiliate programs, or the advertisements, or the geeks out there that favor open-source softwares.

I’m not intend to talk how great the new features of Firefox 2 when compared to Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), or Opera. There are a lot of articles focused on this topic now. I think it’s also not fair for those who love in using IE7 or Opera browsers. Furthermore, I’m a strong believer in the human nature of consumer behavior, if a person like to browse with IE from day one, he/she will hardly change this habit. This goes the same for Firefox or Opera users as well. For most of my friends that ventured in IT field, they were all using IE browser. No doubt they all know how good, or user-friendly Firefox is.

In this coming few years, it’s not surprise that there will be a lot of articles trying to coin IE7 vs Firefox as a new browser war on the web. But now, I enjoyed reading this article, I especially like the objective view in how this article presenting this browser war situation.

I just come across an article from China Supply Chain Council stated that IBM was transferring its chief purchasing operations to China, a move that highlights China’s growing importance in the field of global supply chain. This is the first time the headquarter of a IBM division has been relocated. No doubt Shenzhen has emerged as the global logistics hub, and thus China anchored its status as a global supply chain hub by harnessing the Information Technology.

My view: The cheap labor, the availability of software and services skills in China with the set up of Pudong technology Park of Shanghai has indeed helped China in building the competitiveness of this supply chain hub.

I just met a friend at a bookstore. I am going there to buy some VB 2005 and Ruby on Rails related books. This friend told me he found the first problem in customizing his blog, i.e. did some CSS edit with Yahoo! web hosting. (He was using Yahoo! web hosting for nearly six months). After he changed his blog’s header weight, the update only take effect after 24 hours. He asked why he needs to wait for so long to view the changes he did on his wordpress blog? His CSS script errors or Yahoo! servers’ problem? I can’t answer it because I’m not with him when he was doing the CSS edit.

However, I experienced something I do not like Yahoo! web hosting package. I once install and customize a WordPress blog in Yahoo!’s server for one of my clients. Though I got the option to make my client’s blog as the home page, Yahoo! by default will force that blog to a subfolder. To be more specific, my client’s blog home page address will become, i.e. www.example.com/blog/. Moreover, all the pages are within the subfolder, put an example, the “About” page, would appear as www.example.com/blog/about.

Assume my client want to host another blog in the same Yahoo! hosting package by using Movable Type, another blogging software available in Yahoo!. After you done the Movable Type installation, it would appear as the following URL, i.e. www.example.com/blog1/. I feel the methodology behind this setting is: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Just take it as granted.

I even read some sources on the web, there are issue pertaining to permalink when you host your blog with Yahoo! For all sort of issues here, I hope Yahoo! aware of this and take action towards in integrating WordPress and Movable Type with its hosting package. Try to improve its blogging package and thus attract more customers.

I came across this article, the Internet will soon have a domain to unify businesses and other users in the Asia-Pacific region. A key oversight agency has approved a “.asia” domain for Internet addresses, supplementing suffixes available for individual countries, such as “.cn” for China and “.jp” for Japan.

I personally feel that this is a great news especially for the Asian websites. If people from around the world particularly want to search something from Asia countries, they can just find these websites by looking at the dot asia domain name, e.g. www.example.asia . On the other hand, for newly Asian websites start-ups, they can easily gained differentiation from others on the web.

I’ve been blogging on my Blogger account for some time. This is my first experience with WordPress. I first thought of buying a domain name and hosting my blog somewhere in Yahoo, Dreamhost or MediaTemple, or do a domain-mapping, I’m not decided yet. In fact, my former schoolmate was using WordPress in Yahoo Small Business Package for a while and he was persuaded me to make a switch. I was just do some trials in this blog and I found out that I need to upgrade in order to do some CSS edit. Also, I had problems in using the Sidebar Widgets feature with IE7. I had to install and use Firefox to remove any “Category” that I don’t like. I hope the technical staff of WordPress would fix it in the near future.

And here, I want to say that this is yet another technology blog on the web. I really hope it goes well. But I would very like to differentiate this blog with an Asian’s perspective and furthermore, blogging on the emerging new technologies or start-ups in Asia South.

Update: Originally, I was using kennylee.wordpress.com as my personal weblog. However, I prefer to blogging on the web using my own domain, i.e. tagedge.com and I have moved all my posts to this new site in November 2006.