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Daily Archives Saturday, November 2008

Favorite Interface to Amazon AWS?

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
I am familiar with several different interfaces to AWS. The three I am most familiar with and have used are Elastic fox, Cloud Studio and amazon’s command line interface. I’ve also heard of a paid GUI …

Posted 15 November 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rittman Mead at the UKOUG Conference 2008

It’s just a few weeks now until the user group event of the year, the UK Oracle User Group Conference & Exhibition 2009. This year, as well as presenting at the conference we will have a stand in the exhibition hall, where we’ll be demonstrating all the latest Oracle BI&DW tools and answering any development [...]

Posted 15 November 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

phpBB 3.0.3 Released…

I just noticed that phpBB 3.0.3 was released a few days ago. Not sure how I missed that one. Anyway, my forum is now upgraded…
Cheers
Tim…
Update: I just received the email telling me of the release. I guess I didn’t miss it, it was just late.

Posted 15 November 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Back in Birmingham…

I’m back in Birmingham after my mammoth conference run, but I’m finding it a little hard adjusting to normal life again. For a start, it’s 03:15 and I had breakfast at 23:00. As you’ve probably guessed by now I’ve not adjusted to the UK timezone very well. I’m stuck somewhere between NZ and UK.
The weather [...]

Posted 15 November 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Time for another vote!

OK, so Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.

THAT MAKES ME SO VERY HAPPY.

I don’t expect that he will be able to reverse the decline of the American Empire, but he sure is a sight for sore eyes and ears and brains and conscience. And to think that Americans could see their way to electing a non-white old male to be their President. I am more hopeful than I have been in a long, long time.

Anyway, that election is done with and now I am writing to ask your help for another election: vote for my son, Chris, in a remix competition! Chris sent out this email today, and I pass it on to all of you.

From Chris Silva, http://chrissilva.com

Hello friends, fam and recipients of my spam!

I know many of you may not have heard from me in quite a while since I’ve been in serious hermit mode and taken a considerable break from the business of visual art and the relentless hustle that is needed to sustain that career. But I’m back and asking for your support in my venture to make music a more solid part of my existence. I have realized that creating music is too important an aspect of who I am and it would be fantastic if it could start bringing in some income at some point too.

So here’s where you come in!.

Below is the link to my entry to this Roots “Criminal” remix contest:

http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/3621

So please hook me up with a vote! Just click the link above and press “vote for me” on the page you are redirected to. Then, if I make it to the top 25 then I can actually compete in a real remix competition.

The determination of winners for this first round is really lame (didn’t realize this until after the fact)…basically a self-promo battle for votes. I guess the judges didn’t want to have to listen to 310 remixes to determine what was actually good. But I worked hard on my track and feel its good enough to be in the top 25, so I’m giving it a shot.

The top 25 finalists will advance to Round 2. For Round 2, The Roots will make another track from Rising Down available to be remixed by the 25 finalists, and thankfully there be 3 judges making the final decision.

Oh, and “L.C. Rivers”…that’s me. Lavish Catastrophe Rivers is an anagram of Christopher Tavares Silva and is what I’m using as my music production identity.

Much love to all!

Chris…

http://chrissilva.wordpress.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrissilva/

http://www.myspace.com/thehomeconcertorium

Posted 15 November 2008 † Steven Feuerstein § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °