Some stuff I found while looking around this week. I have to share all this because my ‘Saved For Later’ tab in Feedly is getting obnoxious. Here is a 14-year-old girl absolutely nailing Van Halen’s “Eruption”. This is amazing to be because not only is she 14 and plays it perfectly, but also because I
Read More...Great data and visualizations from Oracle. Here’s to hoping they do more infographics like this.
Read More...Bianca Bosker, writing for HuffPo Tech, interviews 14-year-old Casey Schwartz about Schwartz’s iPhone. Specifically, what really happens on a teen girl’s iPhone, and how it becomes a source of stress and social status among Schwartz’s peers. Some excerpts are below, but you owe it to yourself to read the whole interview. Parents of teenage girls,
Read More...Although I’ve gone fishing about two dozen times in my life, I am by no means what you’d call a good fisherman. I can cast and reel a lure in, sure, but ask me to string a reel, hook a worm or select even a halfway appropriate lure for conditions, and I’m lost. And knots
Read More...At 14 years old, Zach Sobiech found out he had a rare form of cancer called osteosarcoma, a disease of bone tissue most commonly found in teenagers during heavy growth phases. In the months he had left, Zach turned to music and literally became a star. In the process, he created something truly astonishing. He
Read More...I recently did my rounds with my customers in Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky. Nothing like spending hours and hours driving on Interstate 75. Yup, just me and about 900,000 semi trucks. Simply put, my primary job responsibility at MIPRO is to sell consulting services to implement the PeopleSoft suite of applications. As most of our
Read More...MIPRO Consulting Attending OHUG’s Global Conference Join MIPRO Consulting and more than 1,500 of your closest Oracle HCM Users Group friends in Dallas, Texas for the OHUG Global Conference 2013, June 10-14. This annual conference is a weeklong networking and learning opportunity for anyone working with human capital management systems, including Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business
Read More...David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Keyon College commencement speech made the rounds a few years ago, never more intensely than after his death in 2008. As a guy in his mid–40s who reflects on what he has and hasn’t learned over the years, I find commencement speeches interesting and hopeful – little spoken placards of life
Read More...PeopleSoft Ohio Regional User Group Meeting Please join us at the next Ohio PeopleSoft Regional User Group (RUG) meeting on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at the Conference Center at OCLC. The Conference Center is located at 6600 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017. The Ohio Regional PeopleSoft User Group is geared to provide a forum for
Read More...Pretty interesting information from an anonymous Microsoft developer over at Zorinaq: I’m a developer in Windows and contribute to the NT kernel. (Proof: the SHA1 hash of revision #102 of [Edit: filename redacted] is [Edit: hash redacted].) I’m posting through Tor for obvious reasons. Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening.
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