ThaRum - Musings from Cambodia

Phnom Penh in big picture

October 30th, 2006

Perfect Phnom Penh, an online photo gallery of the Cambodian capital, is growing pretty fast to be a digital museum of Phnom Penh city where people can visit at anytime, from anywhere.
In about two months, 33 photographers joined to contribute their favorite pictures to the pool of the photo group. Setup to give travellers, visitors, [...]

The dark side of the Internet

October 21st, 2006

The Internet was born out of the U.S. military research in North America. Years later, in Europe, Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web. It all became history. But the number of the Internet users is growing rapidly in Asia, making the continent one of the largest users in the world. Some hundred thousand pages of the [...]

The capture of America’s most wanted computer hacker

October 21st, 2006

Tsutomu Shimomura, the world’s greatest computer security expert, had a tough time from the Christmas Day 1995. His home computer was under attack. Infamous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick deployed clever method to gain access to Shimomura’s privacy and value computer software. Fight back! It was until Valentine Day in 1996 that the computer security expert, [...]

Kafka on the Shore

October 18th, 2006

Kafka became part of a brand-new world after he left his Tokyo home to search for his missing mother and sister. Knowing that he has to be one of the toughest fifteen-year-old boys in the world, and sees no reason to live in his isolated world with his father, the fifteen-year-old started a mission to [...]

Random thoughts from Cambodia

October 14th, 2006

Spurred by the fact that weblog stimulates open discussion among people who have common interest, Cambodians take their concerned issues online to share with the world who are listening to them. Is weblog community an open space for debate? In what way can this new tool enhance the way citizens get into discussions, have their [...]