In case anyone was wondering why my blog has been very quiet these last few days, it’s because I trashed my XP installation. I was playing around with a Vista Transformation Pack, a collection of hacks to skin your Windows XP to look like Vista. I didn’t wait long enough …
Now, most of the hits on my site from google are from people searching for Swanson’s rules of management. To any of them who actually get to my site, here is an article initially linked from Kottke that suggests Swanson’s rules are a rip-off from a much older book. You …
Over the last 2 days, a huge controversy has erupted over the apparent super-editorial rights exercised by some Digg administrators to “kill” stories in the digg queue. It started with this article, which pointed out that something was not right in the number of diggs listed for 2 stories. It …
Got this in my official email – A well-written article describing the very different roles a BA and a PM play: From http://www.allpm.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1517&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 The best way to guarantee success of any type of project is to have a strong, experienced Project Manager and a strong, experienced Business Analyst. These two …
A few links I have received in my official email, which would be useful for Oracle database users: http://go.techtarget.com/r/149379/1863357 http://wtcis.wtamu.edu/oracle/server.101/b10736/analysis.htm http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/2222781 http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oracle9i/daily/may30.html http://rootshell.be/~yong321/oranotes/rkillsession.txt http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oracle9i/pdf/o9i_etl_twp.pdf (Warning: Direct PDF Link)
I’ve decided that the del.icio.us tag cloud I had on my right sidebar was a little too distracting, so I’ve knocked it off. In place of the cloud tag, I’ve added a 30boxes badge. It actually has some entries now, which is very surprising 😛 That now means whenever I …
So Backpack is one of those websites that’s everywhere when you read about the whole “Web2.0” movement. While I’ve looked it over, I never really got why someone would use Backpack. It finally hit me today that Backpack was probably a better place for me to maintain my blog To-Do …
A while back, I had posted an article on how to enhance your firefox experience. Shortly thereafter, I came across an article on digg that pointed out several of my favourite extensions are responsible for memory leaks in Firefox, notably SessionSaver, FlashGot and Adblock (the last 2 only when installed …
So here is the first in an overdue series of articles that I had put up over a month ago so that I would get off my lazy so-and-so and actually write something. A few months back, I had been looking around for a free browser-based game that I could …
One of the “joys” of working as an IT consultant is that you get travel.. a lot. I saw this article in Lifehacker today, and I found myself interested in wanting to create a map that would show all the places I’ve been to. So I first tried out Community …