I think all of the mass transit (rail systems) in Japan are privately owned (publicly held). It means no tax money is used to used to build, maintain and upgrade the rail system. Unless I am mistaken, all rail systems except AMTRAK are owned and operated by government or government agencies. Although, AMTRK is a privat...

In order to build the new bridge over Lake Washington, the State is putting a toll on the bridge. They say it can cost as much as $6 to cross the bridge one way. It is not like we are not paying tax already, they are asking us to pay in addition. The State is not cutting their spending to ask us for more money. The reason...

The chinese character you see above represents a word TRUST. There are two parts to this character. Left has two strokes. This represents PEOPE. And the right side represents WORD. The word TRUST is made up with PEOPLE + WORD. What does it tell you? Well, people trust the words you speak not the action you take....

We had a very cold days for last couple of weeks. Now the freeze is over and the temperature is getting into the 40's, we are all little feeling better. Although we miss the sunny weather, rain and warmth are little more Seattle like. I heard we are expecting another cold days in about a week. I hope it does not snow.

Would you give anyone a permission to work on anything if the person keeps telling you "I don't know what is wrong". Of cause you don't know everything and people do not expect you to be right 100% of the time. But as a professional, you need to comfort your client by communicating why you think it is the right choice. ...

Today we peaked at 250Mbps for our email traffic. This is due to the beginning of the year business usage. We have had up to 400Mbps of traffic in the past and our servers had no problem handing that number. So, 250Mbps is well within our capacity. To put in the prospective, 250Mbps is same as having 160 T1 connectio...

We had our new year staff meeting yesterday at HQ lobby yesterday. We had a very good year last year but we would like to grow more in 2011. To do that, we ask everyone to be more responsible for what they do and communicate better with customers and among ourselves.

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I just realized that I am 3 years older than Space Needle. What is that mean? I don't know but it is depressing to see something that is old but it is younger than me.

Unlike Santa Clause, Internet Services that we provide can not start and end in short duration of times. Some of our customers are with us for over 10 years. We continue to provide services at the highest level possible. During 2010, our service availabilities are higher than 99.99% and we are working very hard to keep it...