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Repairman Jack: The Tomb…

The Tomb is the first book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. Jack fixes things. Not washing machines and stuff like that. He fixes situations for people. It’s a job that takes him outside the law and means he has to separate himself from most of the things society think of as [...]

Captain Support: Not to the rescue…

This morning, the display on one of my computers was a bit odd. I rebooted the machine and when it came up I got no output on the monitor. I plugged my laptop into the monitor and that worked fine, so it looked like the graphics card had died. I popped down to a local [...]

Chronicle…

I thought Chronicle was a cool film. Three kids find some weird object and develop super powers. How will it affect them and how will they choose to use them? It has the “shot on my camcorder” feel, like Cloverfield, and has a kind of Akira feel to me. While I was watching it I [...]

Google Connect is dead, long live the Google+ badge…

The Google Friend Connect badge I’ve been displaying on my website homepage and this blog is no more. Google have canned that widget.  Instead it’s been replaced by a Google+ badge. Unfortunately, the G+ badges currently only support Google+ pages, so I can’t connect it to my regular G+ profile, only the ORACLE-BASE.com G+ page. [...]

Oracle Documentation: The broken links fiasco continues…

So I was just patting myself on the back for finishing my website clean up, then I happened on a few pages with broken links to Oracle documentation. That annoyed me, but I figured I better do a quick scan to see how many broken external links I had. The first attempt was a complete [...]

Website Updates: Cleanup Complete…

I wrote last month about some issues with my website as a result of an issue with my hosting provider. It’s been a very long and arduous process, but I think I’ve finally finished the last of the cleanup. It’s certainly not something I would like to repeat again. Having said that, there are lots [...]

Funny Cloud Computing Video…

If you loved this,

iPhone4 vs HTC EVO

And you loved this,

Mongo DB Is Web Scale

Then you will probably love this,

Oracle Cloud Computing

Cheers
Tim…

Underworld: Awakening…

I went to watch the 3D version of Underworld: Awakening yesterday. I’ve made my feeling know about 3D several times and this film changes nothing. The 3D element is an expensive gimmick I can live without. What’s more, the 3D in this film is pretty crappy. It looks like a post-production thing, rather than being [...]

Windows: The easy option for Oracle…

I mentioned this when I blogged about my 11gR2 Virtual RAC install on Windows 2008. It came up in a conversation with Niall Litchfield at UKOUG 2011 and I’m reminded of it again today, after doing an 11gR2 install on Windows XP to double-check my answer to a question. Oracle database installs on Windows are [...]

Free Book Offer…

Just a quick heads-up for anyone who is interested in getting hold of a free copy of OCA Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I: A Real World Certification Guide. There are two free e-books to be won. The two people that contact Sunil Chakravarthy (sunilc@packtpub.com) giving the best reason why they want a free copy of this [...]