The LHC Explained (for the rest of us).

A very nice and (relatively) everyday explanation as to how the Large Hadron Collider works can be found over at todaysbigthing. I can honestly say that I almost understood it all

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Funny Illustration – McCain and Palin in charge!

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I especially like the maniacal look on both of their faces.  Most certainly not an accurate representation but funny as hell.

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Openworld announcement – exadata!

In a bid to solve the bandwidth problem inherent between storage and server Oracle has teamed with HP on it’s first bit of hardware – storage with an imbedded database.
The basic premise is that any oracle query retrieves disk blocks from the storage and then sorts through those blocks to give the user what they [...]

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Supper short post – Yosemite rocks !

See the flickr photostream – I’ve only been able to upload a couple so far. We had a great time with the gang from Itec (Mike R, Erik, Jeff, Kelly and myself) and our new friends Lore and Jan – thanks to Paula Russell for introducing us

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Getting ready for OpenWorld

So I’m getting my rear in gear for Oracle Openworld (and thanking the stars that I can go).
My presentations are shaping up – Oracle has suggested a few tweaks to the 2 I’ll be co-presenting with them and Dell has some mods too but nothing insane.
Since I’ll be enjoying a nice flight I was pondering [...]

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Putting lipstick on my pig!

Before:
During:
After:
 
As was said of wilbur “That’s SOME pig!”

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Wicked cool machine from the past.

I’d love to have one of these little devices. Apparently a fully functioning extremely cool calculator from the 1920’s.
You can read all about this marvel over at the curta calculator site

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Avoiding Suislide.

Owing to the number of presentations I’ve done lately I was thrilled to find a glorious book titled Slide:ology which I am devouring as quickly as time permits. I’m hoping to benefit from Nancy Duartes work – she’s giving up 20 years of professional content development experience in this book and I can tell that even [...]

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Ted Talks – Do schools today kill creativity?

If you have children you owe it to them to give up 17 minutes:

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RNC – ever reliable fear mongering ?

So I’m listening to the Republic National Convention.
At the moment, Rudy is talking about how Obama voted ‘present’ XXX times – unable to pick a side. Got me to thinking that one should arm themselves with the real facts for both candidates.
Well all hail the blessed interweb – turns out you can see them all [...]

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