January 2009
51 posts
Back in Melbourne, silly season is finally over!
In Hamilton for the rest of the day
I don’t care what sandra bullock did, working on the beach doesn’t work. Too much sand in the keyboard.
http://twitpic.com/18cji - Primal beach construction with the kids
Re: SQL Server 2005 RTM Shipped →
RTM - Release to Manufacturing, i.e. the first non-test version of the product. If you see RTM for SQL Server 2000 this just means no service pack has been applied. ________________________________
Yep, back at the beach. Waihi in New Zealand. Have mobile broadband, will travel.
Had a dvd wanted to watch it on the itouch, thought iTunes would make this easy, alas not. Why can I rip a cd but not a dvd?
Wow, that was the 150th time through australian customs on current passport.
At melbourne airport, heading to auckland…
Re: Twitter….What Would You Pay? →
Gee Howard, I am not sure I am as confident as you. Almost all of the innovation over the last 2 years has come from third party services built on top of twitter, such as StockTwits. This then makes…
Going to work remotely from a beach in New Zealand next week. Have a Telecom mobile broadband card which seems to get decent speeds.
If you use MySQL and having performance troubles doing dw/analytic queries then should check this out http://weny.ws/1Ud
RT @siliconkelly: Melbourne’s Entrepreneurs on Twitter http://weny.ws/1Uf (please retweet and add any missing via the comments)
#myfirstjob Washing dishes in a hotel kitchen
My post on Kickfire & Data Analytics for the Masses http://weny.ws/1Ud
Kickfire: Data Analytics for the Masses →
You may not realize it, but the data analytics market is buzzing. There are new vendors emerging, new products popping up, new deals being done, and several new strategies being pursued….
Note to blogesphere: the cut off date for publishing 2009 predictions has passed!
When trying to find someone on twitter “Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled.”
http://twitpic.com/13oqn - Altona
Have had a great morning speaking to people doing cool stuff in the data management space. Putting together several articles this weekend
After being frustrated with the massive amounts of memory used by IE (700Mb with 1 tab open), finally trying out firefox in a serious way
Ugg, 37°C (98°F) outside, braving it….
(should have mentioned, running XP_
Even now with 3GB of RAM my two HP (nx9420) laptops stop functioning at 1.74GB RAM used (menus stop, windows blank, apps won’t start) ideas?
Silicon Kelly →
Silicon Kelly is a community of companies that are working together to raise the profile of the bustling technology sector in Melbourne, Australia. “Silicon Kelly” is of course a play…
The Satyam execs are in for a tough time (rightly so), I think India will make an example of them to try and protect it’s new economy
RT @Teradata: Great list of BI contacts. Thanks @shawnrog Business Intelligence Twitter list. Add to the list. http://bit.ly/17QxL #bi
Online community of startups and technology innovators in Melbourne, Australia (new site) http://www.siliconkelly.com/
It seems 2GB of RAM is not enough for Outlook, TweetDeck, FeedDemon, Visual Studio, Word and half a dozen browser windows. Ordered 4GB.
Predictions for 2009 are so last week.
For all the users of the RockSolid SQL Server Automated Management tool, @rocksolidsql is now on twitter
Apple, DRM & Content Protection →
Image via CrunchBase The music industries decision to do away with DRM, which has lead to Apple’s ability to offer titles DRM free in iTunes is a great decision that will…
Apple, DRM & Content Protection http://weny.ws/1Ti
Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC →
The big question is can you get all the downloads that you have alredy purcahsed in DRM free format or do you have to re-buy them?
Just had coffee with the RockSolid team, everyone is pretty excited about the new year which is great to see
Is love for Twitter blind? →
In almost every respect Twitter has been a perfect example of how not to launch a start up. They have made blunder after blunder and in application of conventional logic, they shouldnât be around…
2009: Products I Can’t Live Without →
Inspired by TechCrunch I have put together my own âcanât do withoutâ list as we head into 2009.
Is our love for Twitter really blind? http://weny.ws/1Te
Found out a bunch of people I had been following had become ‘unfollowed’ somehow.
Is love for Twitter blind? →
Image via CrunchBase Oh Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. In almost every respect Twitter has been a perfect example of how not to launch a start up. They have made blunder…
2009: Products I Can’t Live Without →
Inspired by TechCrunch I have put together my own “can’t do without” list as we head into 2009. This of course skips over all the boring by necessary productivity software (Office, Visual Studio…
The tech products I can’t live without (inspired by TechCrunch) http://weny.ws/1Tb
Have updated BB Bold to v4.6, hope this will finally get rid of random restarts.
Who cares about your data? http://weny.ws/1TY
Top 10 Data Management Issues for 2009 →
So itâs that time of year again when everyone puts out their predictions for the year ahead. I think predictions are a bit of a waste of time because to be interesting predictions have to be big,…
Re:... →
I think this becomes easier if you have a defined a set of core objectives for yourself (both professionally and personally). As cheesy as it sounds, after 8 straight years of working 80-100+ hours a…
Who cares about your data? →
Image via Wikipedia JournalSpace, a blogging website which had been around for 6 years but failed recently when their server died and they realized they didn’t have any…
