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Month: July 2006

The Sea of Names

July 19, 2006 Steve Karam News Leave a comment

This is a pretty neat Java based tool.  NameVoyager by iVillage allows you to see name rankings based on year and names per million babies and has a type-ahead tool that lets you type letters in to narrow down results.  Looks like Steve is losing popularity but did very well

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Free AJAX Course

July 19, 2006 Steve Karam Technology Leave a comment

I absolutely love AJAX. In fact, I’m going to be speaking at Oracle OpenWorld, a presentation entitled “Putting the Express back into Oracle Application Express with AJAX.” I also like free. This article caught my eye today, as it’s talking about several free online courses over the period of three

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Good News for Psychics

July 19, 2006 Steve Karam Technology Leave a comment

Have you been trying to convince friends, family, co-workers, and asylum caretakers that you’re psychic with no luck? Maybe this is the program for you! According to an article on Silicon.com, new studies are using three dimensional virtual worlds to gauge telepathic ability in humans by playing virtual ‘guessing games.’

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Oracle’s Plan For Growth

July 18, 2006 Steve Karam Oracle Leave a comment

According to a ComputerWorld article, Oracle has outlined it’s five growth plans as: Security Content Management Business Intelligence Grid Computing Enterprise Search These are some great areas for Oracle to grow into, honestly. Now, you may think from my last article that security would be one Oracle would have some

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Ouch! 65 Oracle Security Vulnerabilities?

July 18, 2006 Steve Karam Oracle Leave a comment

According to a report by C|NET, that latest Oracle patch released today fixed 65 bugs, 27 of which could be exploited remotely by anonymous attackers. BE SURE TO APPLY THIS PATCH. Let me give you DBAs a tip: patch your databases the moment Oracle releases a security patchset. Remember that

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The Most Incredible Office Warfare Tool Ever

July 18, 2006 Steve Karam Fun Leave a comment

Today, I received and plugged in the best office warfare tool imaginable. Yes, my friends, it is the USB Missile Launcher. This little gizmo is insanely fun to play with. It is a small plastic missile launcher, about a half foot tall with three “turrets” that hold white foam darts.

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A Fresh Look!

July 18, 2006 Steve Karam News Leave a comment

Now that I’ve started my blog, I wanted to get going with a fresh custom look. Now I truly feel like an Oracle Alchemist! Hey, maybe one of these days I’ll get around to actually putting some Oracle tips on here. What a novel idea… Many thanks to Kat of

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First Day with a New Blog

July 17, 2006 Steve Karam News One comment

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not new to the “blog world”…I’ve just never made one. However, after last week when I found out I had been accepted to speak at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, I thought to myself, “You’ve accomplished a lot…but you don’t even have a

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