A while ago now the UK mobile phone operator Orange announced that they would be starting to sell the iPhone (as soon as the UK exclusivity deal with Vodafone had ended).

As a business customer of Orange I registered my interest in having one. For the last 3 years I have been using a Blackberry 8800 on the Orange network. To be honest I have been very happy with… Continue reading

This weekend signals the end of Metalink.

Some will cheer “good riddance”, and welcome with open arms the new all-singing, all-dancing, “My Oracle Support”. Others, like me, may reflect on the demise of a stalwart of Oracle’s public-facing persona’s

With it’s configurable widgets, and shiny colours, the new Oracle Support site certainly conveys a sense of modernity that simply did not exist with Metalink. But then Metalink harks… Continue reading

This harps back to an earlier blog about being spoilt for choice regarding which laptop i was going to take with me on my jaunt to Vegas (ostensibly to attend the Oracle HCM User Group).

Anyway, through various methods of deduction, i had opted to take my Dell Vostro – a behemoth of a machine running CentOS, loaded to the gills with development tools and a full install of… Continue reading

I just had to post this – it’s so amusing to the code-monkeys out there.

Its a post (repost in fact) by Roedy Green, from Canadian Mind Products. I came by it by way of a Tweet from Eddie Awad. It’s essentially a tongue-in-cheek article on the best ways to not write code, or (if you would like a job for… Continue reading

Oh the dilema of choice!

In just under 2 weeks time i am flying out to Las Vegas to attend this years Oracle HCM User Group conference (OHUG). I’m planning to take one of my many laptops with me so that i can do some of the following:

• Keep on-top of my email
• Keep an eye on the HRMS Aces forums (as an Admin)
• Keep

This was not my idea. Not my idea at all. If i’d had my way i would steer clear of social networking altogether.

It was an idle (almost throw-away) suggestion by my better half that i should set up a Twitter account so that i could “Tweet” whilst i’m on my jolly attending the OHUG Conference in Las Vegas in June. That way she would know that i… Continue reading

A dangerous thing the internet is…

Working in IT as i do (and as i have done for all of my working life) i have often leapt with open arms onto new technology. Often this took the form of buying into gadgetry, often at great expense, and often only for a short-lived buzz of excitement… Who remembers the Iomega Zip Drive? Or the Creative DAP Digital Music Player, or… Continue reading