OT: Official Name For Windows “Longhorn” Announced

Friday, July 22nd, 2005 by Mark Rittman

CNET
News.com : "The next version of Windows finally has
an official name: Windows Vista. The advertising tagline for
Vista is "Clear, Confident, Connected: Bringing clarity to
your world," according to a video of the announcement posted
by Microsoft. The company also said Friday that the first
beta, or test release, of Vista is slated for release by
Aug. 3. That release [...]

A Batch of New Books

Friday, July 22nd, 2005 by Mark Rittman

It’s
been a while since I ordered a job lot of books through Amazon, but I finally
got around to putting an order through last week and a couple of Amazon boxes
were waiting for me when I got home yesterday. It’s often interesting to see
what other people read, so I thought I’d make a note of them [...]

Guess This Week’s Glamorous Location…

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

I expect many of you think that the lifestyle of the travelling Oracle
consultant is a constant whirl of five star hotels, glamorous locations and
business class travel back and forth across the Atlantic. In fact it’s mostly
budget hotels, travel on the train in the evenings and staying overnight at such
wonderful destinations as Reading, Liverpool, Portsmouth and [...]

Guess This Week’s Glamorous Location

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

I expect many of you think that the lifestyle of the travelling Oracle
consultant is a constant whirl of five star hotels, glamorous locations and
business class travel back and forth across the Atlantic. In fact it’s mostly
budget hotels, travel on the train in the evenings and staying overnight at such
wonderful destinations as Reading, Liverpool, Portsmouth and [...]

Falling Apart

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

Just a short note to anyone who’s tried to post a comment recently. Unfortunately the engine behind this site (Moveable Type 3.17) is falling apart somewhat, due to some ongoing problems with mySQL drivers and a recent upgrade from 2.64 that I think went wrong somewhere.
What this means is that you may well get an [...]

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