Category Archives: Random

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  Instead it’s been replaced by a Google+ badge.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. [...]

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…

(Orthodox) New Years Resolutions…

I’ve not become all religious. I’m just using this variant on new year to start my new year in earnest. The start of this year has been a little shaky for me. The first couple of days I was a little under the weather and I kinda decided to break all my planned new years resolutions [...]

Amazon Kindle…

One of my justifications for buying the iPad was I would use the Kindle App on it and save lots of money on buying paper books. That didn’t happen because the iPad is a really crappy reading device for novels. It’s way to big and heavy and has a nasty glossy screen that it totally [...]

phpBB 3.0.10 Released…

I somehow managed to miss the release of phpBB 3.0.10 at the start of the year. The changelog is here. All upgraded now. Cheers Tim…

WordPress 3.3.1 Released…

WordPress 3.3.1 has been released. The release notes are here. Cheers Tim…

Happy Christmas/Holiday

Just a quick post to say happy Christmas to those that celebrate it. To everyone else, happy holiday. Of course, if you don’t have a holiday this time of year I guess it’s just happy now. Cheers Tim…

Return Of The Mack…

On my final day in Bulgaria I managed to leave my coat, hat and gloves in a restaurant about 2 hours away from Sofia. I realized when we were about 30 minutes from Sofia, but thought it was no point saying anything because we didn’t have time to go back and get them. When we [...]

Up the Villa…

I had a bit of good news the other day. Nephew #2 (6 years old) is now playing for Aston Villa Academy. He’s quite small for his age and he trialed with a group of boys a year older than him, so my brother said he looked tiny and the kit they gave him was [...]