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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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