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...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.
Read More...Peter Bregman (whose blog posts I love, by the way), writes about the unspoken psychology of procrastination: Here’s the thing: More often than not, our fear doesn’t help us avoid the feelings; it simply subjects us to them for an agonizingly long time. We feel the suffering of procrastination, or the frustration of a stuck
Read More...Here’s a great SlideShare slide deck by Oracle PeopleSoft’s Anoop Savio that goes into why the PeopleSoft Search Framework is so powerful, especially when ‘enterprise data’ has become so all-encompassing. Moves from high concept to the fine details, so there’s something for everyone here, even sans audio. Check it out. People soft search framework from
Read More...Self-described “secret nerd” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lists 20 things he wishes he knew when he was 30 years old. The most poignant to me: 20. Everything doesn’t have to be fixed. Relax, K-Man. Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing. Read the whole thing. Heck, print
Read More...I have spent the last 25 years of my career either managing implementations or working with customers to ensure a successful implementation. During that time, my most prominent theory for the use of consultants is that ‘trial and error is not an implementation methodology’. It’s true. Many companies consider the use of consultants for various
Read More...Here’s the coolest — and strangest — video you’ll watch all day. The moral: physics is amazing. Let’s get this week rolling, shall we?
Read More...Today’s post is about a camera. So, photography geeks, grab a coffee, because we’re gonna get our nerd on. Backstory For almost two years, I’ve been looking for a camera that can serve as a travel/everyday backup to my big-rig Canon 5D Mark III DSLR, until Chris Schmitt Photography was able to help me out
Read More...Mark your calendars! Join MIPRO Consulting and over 1,500 attendees at the OHUG Global Conference. This will be the place to meet up with old friends and colleagues — and to make plenty of new ones! With over 200 user-lead sessions, you’ll have the chance to interact one-on-one with Oracle representatives who develop and manage
Read More...Might it be a good time to optimize your current system and/or business processes? What is the true state of your system? Consider these: Is your organization considering changing to a different system? If so, is it possible that, by executing a system optimization initiative and/or functional upgrade with your current system, that you might
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