Not much content here, but I had to share this story because it’s one I’ve discussed in the past. The headline from the AP: “Reply-all e-mail storm hits State Department“ If you don’t feel like clicking through, this is one you’ve probably experienced. Someone sends an email (in this case, a blank one) to a… Read More
Author: Jake
a.k.a.:jkuramot
What’s Your Next Project?
Initially, the title was “What’s Your Next Geeky Project?”, but I’m interested to know other projects too. I’m a DIY guy. I like messing around with stuff, figuring out how to do things and learning new (ahem) skills. Most of my projects involve computers because that’s where most of my skills are. I tinker around… Read More
Mix Adds Account Merge
Just saw a post from Tim over at the Mix blog, and it looks like they’ve rolled out some new stuff to Mix. Nothing terribly noteworthy, except for the long-anticipated ability to merge accounts. In the past, we had several requests to merge the accounts of people who had left jobs and wanted to bring… Read More
Interesting Promotion from Hyundai
I spent last weekend vegetating in front of the NFL Playoffs, watching them in HD. I asked you yesterday what gadgets you got for the Holidays, and I mentioned the LCD photo frame I bought my wife. Well, she bought me a TV, an LCD-DVD player combo, and she upgraded (ahem, let me upgrade) the… Read More
What Gadgets Did You Get over the Holidays?
I’ve noticed a trend lately in my posts. I’m asking more questions. This wasn’t intentional before, but from here on out, it will be. Aside from creating more content and engaging you all as much as possible, I’m hoping to get real information, similar to the way I frequently use Twitter, i.e. I poll for… Read More
Did Someone You Know Get Facebook for Christmas?
Or maybe you did? I polled Twitter to see if anyone else noticed an influx of activity and friend requests from Facebook over the holidays, loosely interpreted as the end of December. Meg agreed, and everyone else wisely continued enjoying their seasonal free time. According to Hitwise, Facebook saw its highest ever daily traffic number… Read More
And We’re Back
In case you’re wondering, our domain expired over the weekend, which is why this blog was wiped from the ‘tubes for the last couple days. At least it was if you use theappslab.com. Oracleappslab.com was working, but it had no CSS applied. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
The Oracle Mix Blog
So, a couple days ago, Tim started The Oracle Mix Blog, which will be the official home for all things related to Mix. That’s not to say we won’t talk about Mix here, but if you want to hear news from the source or want to get the attention of those guys, that will be… Read More
Time for 2009 Predictions
Now that the 2008 recap is in the can, it’s time for 2009 predictions. Everybody loves predictions because it’s either a chance to crow about how prescient you are or make excuses about how you were partially right and would have been totally right if it weren’t for those darn kids and their dog. Predictions… Read More
Show off Your Powers of Prognostication
I got midway through my predictions post, when I decided that I might like some help. So, taking a page out of Rick’s book, let’s see how smart you are. Sound off in the comments with your predictions for 2009. I don’t think there needs to be a focus on any particular area for your… Read More
It’s That Time of Year, Again
I hope everyone had an enjoyable week of holiday fun. As promised, here’s the first of those obligatory year-end posts, and as is customary, let’s look back at 2008 before we peer ahead into 2009. I would have done this anyway, but friend of the ‘Lab Jim dropped a note asking to see the top… Read More
Happy Holidays
It’s Christmas. So, if you celebrate that one, Merry Christmas. If not, Happy Holidays, and either way, have a restful and happy time. I’m not much of holiday card sender, but for some reason, people still send cards to me. I know; it’s rude of me, but every few years I actually do remember in… Read More
Show Me Yours . . .
And I’ll show you mine, workspace that is. Because that won’t work, I’ll just show you mine, and we can go from there. Many of us work from home almost exclusively, including both Rich and me, and it seems ever more common for people to have a home office, even if they also go into… Read More
IPhone Apps for Units of Work
I found myself reading Floyd’s story about the Call a Cab iPhone app and nodding my head. That was embarrassing, like when you find yourself silently agreeing with a presenter like a bobblehead, except there was no one around to agree with my agreement with Floyd. Like I said, a bit embarrassing. Anyway, Floyd’s experience… Read More
Happy Festivus
What? You’ve never heard of Festivus? It’s the holiday for the rest of us. As a pop culture nut and an old school fan of Seinfeld, I couldn’t let December 23 slip by without wishing you all a Happy Festivus. I suppose while we’re here, I might as well wish you a happy holiday, whichever… Read More
Mix Listed on Ruby on Rails.org
Over the weekend, David Heinemeier Hansson, affectionately know as DHH, creator of Rails, made updates to rubyonrails.org. One change was the addition of Oracle Mix to the list of production apps running Rails. Check out the list; you’ll probably recognize several of the apps there, and about the middle of the page, below the fold,… Read More
RTFM, Winter Edition
As Eddie mentioned, Portland, and most of the Pacific Northwest, is in the grasp of an epic chain of winter storms. It started a week ago with a storm that dumped about 4 inches here in Portland, pretty heavy snowfall, at least for this area. Snow can be a hoot, especially if it comes: a)… Read More
Ads Make Me Laugh
While we wait for the semantic web to serve up really targeted and useful ads, I, for one, continue to ignore 99% of the ads presented to me. But sometimes, they slip through, twice today in fact. Although they work pretty much all the time, Google Ads have turned up many failures in the past.… Read More
Oracle People and Alumni: Share Your Memories
Scotty gave me an idea with his comment on my nostalgic post on Oracle PowerBrowser. So many people in tech have come through Oracle in the past 30+ years, and there are more than 70,000 here now. That makes for a lot of nostalgia and memories that we can share among ourselves and with anyone… Read More
Nostalgia Break: Oracle PowerBrowser
I’ve been thinking about this off and on for a while, and yesterday, while geeking out with VMWare Fusion, I decided to get it done. I’ll back up a bit. I’ve been working to install VMWare to get an Oracle image up and running; I’ve used Virtual Box predominantly in the past because it’s free… Read More