Month: September 2011

Today, we lose another valued team member, as Anthony (@anthonyslai), the 4th musketeer, rides off into the sunset. Posts like these have become too common. I’ve known Anthony for a decade and have worked with him nearly that entire time in one capacity or another. We worked together on the EBS R12 Intercompany and Intracompany Balancing rules engine and the… Read More

I’m having a spirited debate about tagging with Matthias Müller-Prove (@mprove) on OraTweet, and I thought it would be interesting to open it up to long format and other viewpoints. Plus, we’re flooding OraTweet, which I’m not sure people appreciate. Setting the Stage I like tags. They’re quite valuable and provide an easy way to… Read More

Editorial note: This post is by Anthony, in case it’s not obvious. Contrary to appearances, this is a team blog. Today will be my last day at Oracle. In retrospect of my 11 years at Oracle, it has been a fun and enjoyable experience. One of the things I want to do in my life… Read More

Not much to say here other than this is an incredible tribute. Commemorative Calculus: How an Algorithm Helped Arrange the Names on the 9/11 Memorial: Scientific American 343

As a coda to my Macbook Pro wifi network dropping tribulations, I should note that the MBP probably wasn’t to blame for the wifi drops. I provide this explanation as a bookmark for myself, as I’m sure to need it later, and also as an offering to the robot overlords, since I’m sure someone with… Read More

I don’t consider myself a fanboi, but I’ve always found that Apple’s products just work and do so well. Over the years, I’ve owned Macbooks, an iMac, an original iPhone and an original iPad. My latest purchase, a 15-inch Macbook Pro, might be the first exception to the “it just works” mantra. I’ve already invested… Read More

This is pretty fun and very cool. Draw – Google Correlate (h/t kottke.org) You draw a curve, and Google Correlate matches search terms to it from search data collected from January 2003 to the present. Playing with it for a few minutes is bound to turn up something that makes you cock an eyebrow, like this… Read More

MeeGo has a ton of promise, as demonstrated with the ogling and ink spilled over the Nokia N9, which really looks spectacular. Too bad it won’t ever reach the US. Now there’s a rumor floating around that Intel might suspend its MeeGo development. I hope this one isn’t true. Intel reportedly plans to back off MeeGo OS (h/t TechCrunch)… Read More