Archive for July, 2008:
AppsLab Session at OpenWorld
The OpenWorld content catalog has been released, and even though the session schedule hasn’t been finalized yet, you can search and browse for sessions to begin planning your time.
Even though it looks like none of our suggested sessions will make the cut, you can still find AppsLab at OpenWorld. Just to clarify, this [...]
New Home for Oracle iPhone Stuff
About a year ago, I bought my wife an iPhone and then soon broke down and bought myself one. Since then, I’ve blogged several times about the little gadget, including a few posts on how it works for me as a work tool.
A large percentage of the traffic on this blog is due to iPhone [...]
Hurry up and Vote!
Voting for suggested sessions for OpenWorld in September ends today over on Mix.
I can’t tell you exactly what time it will end. Being Sunday and all, Rich is probably busy having a weekend, but it will end today.
If you haven’t voted yet, head over and browse the list of sessions. Participation has been outstanding; we’ve [...]
Halp! I Can’t Figure out the iPhone Contract.
Update: This post could easily have been all about the failday (or iPocalypse as Gizmodo is calling it) Apple and AT&T had. Not since Firefox 3 download day have we seen a fail of these proportions.
No one was exempt: those waiting in line, those updating a 2G iPhone, those trying to activate iPhones for hours. [...]
IPhone 2.0 Lands
Earlier today, Gizmodo leaked the iPhone 2.0 firmware. This update, in conjunction with the iTunes 7.7 release that revealed the long anticipated App Store have allowed me to install apps on my lowly, outmoded iPhone 2G.
I’m now reveling in the geeky pleasure of controlling my iTunes library from my iPhone, using the free Remote app. [...]
Blogggin: Ur Doin It Rong
One of my favorite memes is LOLcats. I never get tired of them. It’s a gift that keeps on giving.
I had hoped to find a hilarious “ur doin it rong” to go with blogging, but alas, you’ll have to be amused by these representative samples.
Anyway, I have a few pet (pun intended) peeves related to [...]
Groups are Grrrreat
Connect has been live for several weeks now. We spent only a few days running it concurrently with original Connect, and then Rich slapped redirects in place for the old URLs. It didn’t make much sense to maintain two instances
Traffic, which had dwindled significantly has ramped back up to between 13-15,000 pageviews each week. This [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Bootcamp on July 28
As Justin blogged yesterday, Oracle is hosting an Enterprise 2.0 Bootcamp on July 28 at the big blue disk drives in Redwood Shores.
I won’t be able to make it, but Paul will be in attendance, along with Justin and the usual suspects. This should be an interesting event where attendees get a chance to interact [...]
Are you the only one who “gets it” at your company?
Do you have a vision for how technology can transform what your company or department does, but no one will listen? Do you spend your day “evangelizing” the merits of social networking behind the firewall but finding it fall on deaf ears? Do you find yourself explaining how a wiki works to everyone who emails you [...]
Why Is Calendar So Hard?
My recent move to Ubuntu over the long weekend has reminded me of a pet rant of mine, calendars. You’d think something so basic for every cross-section of users, from personal to every size business, would have an easy solution.
But no.
I’m a long time Palm Desktop user, long meaning I had one of the second [...]
Taking the Plunge: Part 4
In case you haven’t had enough of my epic dumping of Windows for Ubuntu odyssey, here’s another installment. This is likely to be the last one, but no promises.
This is my fist blog post from Ubuntu, not a huge deal, but still.
I’m probably 75-80% of the way done, with a few holes yet to fill, [...]
Taking the Plunge: Part 3
I decided earlier in the week that the long Fourth of July would be a great time to reimage my work laptop from XP to Ubuntu.
A couple reasons for this: 1) I’m supposed to be off today, so I can muck around with my laptop without worrying about work stuff and 2) it’s a bit [...]
Bring the Lightning
You may have noticed my irritation at ZDNet this week due to their borked podcast of Paul’s appearance at the Churchill Club a few weeks ago.
Everything is cool now, thanks to one Dennis Howlett.
A few things were wrong about this whole thing. First, I left a comment Monday about the podcast being borked; then two [...]
AppsLab FAQ: How Do I Start a Community?
I’m sure Justin has tips on this one to add. Maybe he’ll chime in now that the Oracle blogs migration has ended; by the way, I’m really peeved that OraNA.info is clogged with reposts from Oracle blogs.
Not really, but it’s funny to me. Won’t someone please think of the children?
But I digress.
People frequently come to [...]
Taking the Plunge: Part 2
Over the weekend, I finally made the decision to reimage my laptop, which currently runs XP, to Ubuntu 8.04, fondly known as Hardy Heron.
Well, I dragged my feet, and the weekend ended; XP must not have got the memo because it’s being more temperamental than normal. It’s complaining about disk space on C; it’s killing [...]
Green is the New Black
I’m sure that phrase has been used somewhere else, hopefully under Creative Commons.
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the green movement has gone from non-existent to a hot-button topic seemingly overnight? The recent Tesla factory announcement has me thinking green lately.
I know it’s been around for decades; I’ve been recycling since [...]
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