My humble blog got a mention on the Google front page. Well, my ' History of Oracle' entry appeared in the Blogs section of the Oracle page on Google Finance. Next stop - Top WordPress.com blogs.

A modern, standards compliant RSS feed. Whatever next. Let’s hope people take this opportunity to switch to a full feed. Odd to compare Google’s relative inactivity with all the features, languages, statistics, themes and functionality added to WordPress in the last six months.

Inevitably, Google enters the online spreadsheet market to provide competition for ThinkFree. No charts (yet) and limited invite only but it’s coming. As an aside, I don’t use Excel much. My kids are much more proficient at producing pretty, colourful pie charts and histograms than me. However, I also find it quite staggering that many sensible, intelligent adults spend their lives in Microsoft Excel. A gentleman once emailed me a spreadsheet and I hunted high and low across all tabs for any relevant table data, pretty charts and forumlae. ...

A couple of people stumble across this blog searching for the ‘History of Oracle’ but ultimately go away disappointed. For those people, there is a brief but interesting timeline (covering 1977 to 2001) detailing the development of Oracle Corporation in this freely available screensaver available from Club Oracle. The screensaver is the one titled ‘Oracle Defining Moments - 25 Years of Technology Innovation’.

Another article in this occasional (and extremely popular) series. ‘Sorry about my homework, Sir. I have actually finished my 1500 word essay on the Black Death but when I went to print my work out last night, the folder called ‘My Documents’ was locked. At first I thought my Dad was playing another of his funny, little tricks so I screamed down the stairs ‘DAD - WHY ARE YOU SO ANNOYING ?’. Then I had to wait because he was watching ‘The shirts of 66’ and could not be disturbed. ...