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Re: if Carlsberg made typos - Blog in isolation

oraclebase — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:50:47 -0000

The cupboard is most probably stationary and maybe (s)he is a consultant on the subject of principles.

Please don't ever read anything I write. I can't spell for toffee so I do this sort of thing all the time. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: My Thoughts on Wave

oraclebase — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:36:30 -0000

Hi.

I've already given my first impressions on Rich's original blog, so I won't repeat myself.

I have been wondering if wave could end up being the new friendfeed? My biggest challenge in terms of a Web 2.0 wannabe is actually keeping an eye on everything. Friendfeed helps, but it's not the answer. With the right extensions, wave could merge my emails, RSS, social networks and microblogs into a single consistent stream? You never know. :)

What's more, wave could give me the finer granularity so I don;t need to use LinkedIn for business and Facebook from 1st-life friends...

I know it's a bit of a trivial use, but maybe that will attract the masses more than the business aspects of collaboration...

Cheers

Tim...

Re: The Enterprise Implications of Google Wave

oraclebase — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:55:57 -0000

Hi.

I watched the 1:20 Google I/O session on youtube. First, let me say I was very impressed by the idea and the technology, but I have some reservations:

- Are people ready for a product like Wave? Many people are struggling to cope with basic Web 2.0 concepts and Wave takes it a step further. Not sure how it will be perceived by the non-geeks in the near future.

- It is not just a beta in the Google sense of the word. It looks less than an alpha to me. I think there is a long way to go before I would commit to using the product. During the demo there were bugs, page refreshes required and functional omissions.

- I wonder what network impact of wave will be. In a large company with constant updates between multiple wave subscribers. Is this going to be an issue?

Fast forward 6 months and I hope all my doubts are unfounded. I can't wait to have an interface like wave. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: New job, lots of exciting stuff

oraclebase — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:44:09 -0000

The most important thing to do when starting a new job is, find out where the toilets are. As you're working from home you've got that one sorted. The rest is plane sailing. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: singalonga Shearer - Blog in isolation

oraclebase — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:30:02 -0000

Now that's just mean. You better not go neat Newcastle in the near future. ;)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: why Ballack, Drogba and Terry need to look inwardly - Blog in isolation

oraclebase — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:58:07 -0000

Hi.

If you judged Drogba on this performance alone you would have thought he was drafted in from a Sunday league side. He was just plain rubbish. He missed some goals I think I could have scored. And the feigning injury and all that nonsense just adds to the sorry package.

Ballack... His name says it all. He's a load of Ballacks. :) He's big and strong, but he wouldn't know how to play football if a Penguin book of football walked up to him, slapped him in the face and told him out to play. I'm not sure he even realizes he's meant to be playing football.

Barcelona were playing better football, but Chelsea were stronger and muscled them out. Just as Jamie Redknapp said, if they carry on playing like this the last 20 minutes is going to get really dangerous. I think he may be psychic. :)

Iniesta is very good, but the guy hit the deck every time someone sneezed near him. The authorities really need to do something about it. Either punish them or start presenting awards for the best faker of the match.

I feel sorry for Chelsea, having it stolen at the last minute, but when you play with fire you're sure as hell going to get burned.

Cheers

Tim...

Re: Oracle’s latest acquisition: Me

oraclebase — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:20:30 -0000

Noooooooo. Everyone knows that you disappear from the blogsphere once you join the evil empire 2.0. :)

Well done mate. Sounds like a great oppertunity. Hope it all goes well for you. I'll be thinking of you when I'm at the OpenWorld Appreciation night and you are struggling to find a ticket. :)

See you at ODTUG or OpenWorld.

Tim...

Re: More Fun with Virtualization

oraclebase — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:42:09 -0000

I love VMs. I do everything with them. I keep a clean Linux (CentOS 5) install as a host OS and do everything on VMs. As you mentioned, if anything goes wrong you just fire up a clone. It's also cool when you need to transfers stuff between physical machines. Just move the images. No reinstalls. :)

The cloud stuff sounds cool, but I wouldn't trust it for a demo. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: beyond the expected - Blog in isolation

oraclebase — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:05:03 -0000

If that's even half-way true it's freakin' hilarious.

Cheers

Tim...

PS. Always type, don't write...

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff

oraclebase — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:20:04 -0000

I'm not saying Vista is the better choice of Windows. XP is leaner, faster and a bit neater. It's just I have a proper license for Vista on that laptop, and I'm not into breaking the law these days. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff

oraclebase — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:29:09 -0000

One advantage Apple have over Windows and Linux is they only have to worry about a small amount of hardware drivers. If they started to sell OS X for install on all x86 & x86-64 kit they would have to write thousands of drivers. The biggest gripe I have with Linux (even Ubuntu) is the limited number of divers.

I've switched between Linux and Windows several times on my laptop. A few days ago I switched back to Vista. I don't like it, but it does more of the things I need, with less hassle.

I switched from CentOS5 to Ubuntu on my PC. I'm coming to the end of my love affair with Ubuntu. I think I'm going to switch back to CentOS5. It's more solid and that machine is more of a server, so it's a better match.

As I've said before, stick to VMs and your transitions between OSes are very easy. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: More iPwnage

oraclebase — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:34:47 -0000

Has a new version of the iPhone been released? You would have thought the press would have picked up on that!

Re: Taking the Plunge: Part 4

oraclebase — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:18:58 -0000

Hi.

I think there's an element of emperors new clothes about reinstalling a machine. When I switched from CentOS 5 to Ubuntu 8 on one of my boxes I lived on it for a few days. After that I realized no matter what OS I run I spend 99% of my time in Firefox and virtual machines, so the OS doesn't really matter for me. Now it's just another box I use, rather than my preferred box.

Although I agree that Ubuntu has come a long way in terms of ease of use, I think one of the biggest things that's helped Linux on the desktop is the fact we do more stuff online these days. This frees us up from the constraints of the environment.

Cheers

Tim...

Re: Taking the Plunge

oraclebase — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:49:30 -0000

I do everything on the internet or on VMs. If I lost my laptop tomorrow I could be back online in the amount of time it takes to buy the new laptop, install VMware Server and copy over the VMs.

If you can get into the habit of doing this it makes life very easy. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: Gmail on the up down under - Digging in a Habari sandpit

oraclebase — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:49:28 -0000

They should just palm off their whole operation to Google.

Google University would set an essay, automatically search Wikipedia, create an essay for you, mark it, gmail the lecturer a link to Google Analytics, which would have a plugin for essay results.

People could automatically complete their entire degree in about 10 minutes with no need for human intervention. I call it progress!

Cheers

Tim...

PS. I think a lot of companies will start farming off their infrastructure to big companies like Google and Amazon. The resources they free up from mundane administrative tasks can be used to do something creative.

I know a lot of people will see this as a threat to their livelihood, but it wasn't long ago we were all working the fields guiding 1 horse ploughs.

Cheers

Tim...

Re: Maybe Email Isn’t Dead After All

oraclebase — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:41:45 -0000

The incorporation of email into a lifestream would be good except for spam. As new communication methods become popular, spam hits them too. I've not been a twitter user for long, but I'm already starting to see an increate in twitter spam.

Currently, I get people asking questions on my forum, email, twitter, Oracle Wiki, Oracle Mix, LinkedIn etc. If would be nice if all these things were consolidated into a single uber-stream. :)

As it is, they are not, so I can either keep checking several services, or rely on email notification to tell me what to look at. For me, email is a useful notification service, more than a collaboration tool.

Cheers

Tim...

Re: Bugs in the Matrix

oraclebase — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:38:09 -0000

The classic one is when you buy a new car. As soon as you buy it, everyone else seems to drive the same car.

I think a lot of this is down to how observant you are. Chances are that song is played in the mall every week, but you only noticed it because you heard it on My Name Is Earl, which brought it to your attention.

In the same way, when you buy a car, you start to notice similar cars for the first time. They were always there, but you ignored them.

That's my totally unscientific opinion. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: the thorny issue of blog comment ownership - Digging in a Habari sandpit

oraclebase — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:39:13 -0000

I guess the "dual posting" thing would me more to do with the Disqus plugins, rather than Disqus itself. The plugin would have to tie the blog comments to the Disqus comments... Maybe... :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: the thorny issue of blog comment ownership - Digging in a Habari sandpit

oraclebase — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:11:27 -0000

Thanks for highlighting my quality spelling of Disqus (Discus). :)

I'm still confused. I guess what I really want it dual posting. Comments going to Disqus, but also stored in my blog so if I throw my toys out of the pram and get rid of disqus I still have a full history of comments, rather than a gaping hole. :)

Cheers

Tim...