/dev/nullCameron PurdySponsored by Microsoft- June 25, 2007 OK, this email (picture below) was just too funny: I know that the sponsorship is probably totally unrelated to the content, but sponsoring an email containing two articles bashing Microsoft's two imaginary foes (Google and Open Source) That's so ridiculously funny as to be almost inconceivable. Other headlines that Microsoft is considering sponsoring include: Linux: A ticking time bomb Zune MP3 player outsells Coby for the first time! StarOffice implodes; black hole remains. Time for...http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/sponsored_by_microsoft New Ride- June 25, 2007 For those of you who knew I was considering my options to ride, I finally settled on a K1200GT. 152HP. A hair over 300Kg wet. Sweet.http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/new_ride Extra Super Platinum- June 25, 2007 Well, I would be Extra Super Platinum status if they'd book me on the same airline for a few trips. I just got back from speaking in Munich at an Oracle developer conference and Rome for a Gartner conference, and now I'm off to San Francisco to speak at Google and also to present to the Oracle architecture board. Rome is beautiful. I think I could have easily spent a week of vacation there. Unfortunately, I only got a day to poke around, but it was a lot of fun. I even got to do some clothes...http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/extra_super_platinum Cumberland Farms: Thank you!- June 16, 2007 The art of letter-writing is not dead after all: To whom it may concern, Last night, in a rush and with most stores closed, I made the mistake of buying some food at the local Cumberland Farms store here in Wilmington, MA. Only after getting home did I realize that the eggs were dated for sale no later than sometime LAST MONTH and the juice had passed its sale date by several weeks as well. Now, if I were using it for fertilizer, I probably wouldnt mind too much, but since Im feeding this to..http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/cumberland_farms_thank_you WTF is a Data Grid, anyhow- June 8, 2007 Ever since Tangosol (now Oracle) introduced the notion of a data grid, there has been a lot of interest in the concept, especially after all the major analysts started highlighting the technology. With eXtreme Transaction Processing (XTP) and Event-Driven Architectures threatening to enter the mainstream of enterprise application development, I get a lot of questions about what data grids are, and how they can be used. During Thomas Kurian's keynote at JavaOne this year, I gave a...http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/wtf_is_a_data_grid |