Singapore – Day 2
The IBM Forum 2003 started at 9 AM this morning with an opening talk by Janet Ang, managing director of IBM Singapore. Next was an address by Frank Lavin, the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore. He gave a somewhat positive view of the U.S. economy and a bullish outlook for the impact of the Singapore Free […]
Singapore – Day 1: Part 2
The Swissotel was kind enough to move me to a room with high speed Internet access. That enabled me to upload pictures from the day into the Singpore section of the photo gallery. Since I arrived at the hotel before 8 AM and my first meeting was not until 5 PM I had a choice of taking a […]
Singapore – Day 1
As we disembarked the airplane and walked up a ramp to the main terminal, there was a thermal imaging system. I could not see where the sensor was but the video display showed all of our faces in a light green. I am sure if any of us had a fever, that our faces would […]
Singapore – final leg from Frankfurt
II have been fortunate to have made quite a few trips to Southeast Asia. In every case, until now, the route of flight had been from east to west — New York to Tokyo and then south southwest from Japan to the South China Sea. This trip was west to east. After departing from Frankfurt, […]
Getting Ready To Go To Singapore
In a few hours I will be on the way to Singapore. It has been a busy day getting packed and organized for the trip. As of 11:10 a.m. this morning, I had already received 83 spam emails. Fortunately, every single one of them was automatically placed in my "junk mail" folder and I did […]
