w.ross ashby centenary conference at university of illinois. wolfram is there, and some of the people i met at the von foerster conference in vienna paul pangaro, paul weston, ups, ¿kevin warwick? (living for 14 days with a chipimplant). haven't heard from him for a while. lately someone told me: no, he is not as bad as i think he is. actually, he is a nice guy. ... who has a problem to deal with media, i would add.

idc published an article key lessons from 3GSM world congress 2004. i haven't been in cannes, but at "european wireless" that happened to be a marketing free zone. the key sentence i heard there was simple: mobile IPv4 is a hack. well, it can't be anything else, if you take in account the history of ipv4.

idc is funny to read, anyhow. according to them idc, (integrity,accuracy, insight) once reported that

on an average day in 2000, 9.7 billion email messages were sent worldwide. By the year 2005 that number will grow to 35 billion.

i would like to know how they can come up with this number: by asking nsa? (couldn't resist)

Japan's biggest mobile phone operator, is reportedly to withdraw from 3, the British mobile phone venture controlled by Hutchison 3G. (carriersworld)

it seems docomo doesn't have a good knack for choosing its partners in europe.