Friday, September 1, 2006
Greetings from Malaysia!
Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "UPDATE" @ 08:00 AM
Hi everybody! I'm still a little shell-shocked, but when Jason first approached me about being a Contributing Editor, I jumped at the chance. So here I am, the latest Contributing Editor-in-Training for Pocket PC Thoughts. My name's Nurhisham Hussein (no relation to Saddam), aka hishamh, so here's a little about myself.
I'm from Malaysia...you know, that little bit of land between Thailand and Singapore, with that little bit on the side near Indonesia. ;) I work as an economist in a fund management company, about a 10 minute walk from the site of the ex-tallest buildings in the world. I know: that's about as un-sexy a profession as you can get. My first real experience with technology was when I was about seven - playing 3D chess against a mainframe at Stanford University. To give you an idea how long ago that was, it was before the Apple II was released! I've been a geek ever since. I first got into Pocket PCs in 2004 looking for a way to listen to audible.com content on the go, and it's been downhill from there...I'd never imagined I'd get this involved in a community, though I'm glad I did. My other interests include reading, music and econometric time series models. :wink:
I hope I can help keep up the standards the news team has brought to this site over the years - it's a tough task! Meanwhile, I'll still be hanging around the forums, helping out where I can. Being largely in the same time zone as Darius means we can pretty much cover the news more or less round the clock without knocking everybody out, especially with so many exciting developments coming out of Asia.
You know, the one bad thing about this is now I have absolutely no excuse not to get a Windows Mobile 5 device...
I'm from Malaysia...you know, that little bit of land between Thailand and Singapore, with that little bit on the side near Indonesia. ;) I work as an economist in a fund management company, about a 10 minute walk from the site of the ex-tallest buildings in the world. I know: that's about as un-sexy a profession as you can get. My first real experience with technology was when I was about seven - playing 3D chess against a mainframe at Stanford University. To give you an idea how long ago that was, it was before the Apple II was released! I've been a geek ever since. I first got into Pocket PCs in 2004 looking for a way to listen to audible.com content on the go, and it's been downhill from there...I'd never imagined I'd get this involved in a community, though I'm glad I did. My other interests include reading, music and econometric time series models. :wink:
I hope I can help keep up the standards the news team has brought to this site over the years - it's a tough task! Meanwhile, I'll still be hanging around the forums, helping out where I can. Being largely in the same time zone as Darius means we can pretty much cover the news more or less round the clock without knocking everybody out, especially with so many exciting developments coming out of Asia.
You know, the one bad thing about this is now I have absolutely no excuse not to get a Windows Mobile 5 device...
