I am very lazy. It takes a gargantuan effort for me to maintain motivation and continue making material up for this blog. Therefore, actually sitting down, in my own time, to compose a letter to appeal against a £20 fine imposed by Transport For London on my 14 year old daughter, Norma Jean, was not a task I undertook lightly. I didn’t appeal because I can’t afford the £20. I didn’t appeal because I think my daughter is above the law. ...

Not content with writing excellent books, helping Oracle customers, maintaining his blog, presenting at technical seminars, traveling around the globe, family commitments and managing asktom.oracle.com, the workaholic Tom Kyte has now released a streaming media player.

Yahoo! kindly chose to close my Flickr! account because it was associated with an additional email and not my primary Yahoo Id. I contacted support in an effort to resurrect my Flickr account but to no avail. So, goodbye Flickr and hello Picasa. To get things underway, I proudly present a couple of poor quality camera phone shots from my recent stays in anonymous and overpriced hotels in Cardiff and Oxford respectively.

Publish your metrics as a colourful chart in Google Spreadsheets or upgrade to Thunderbird 2.

Looked good but you forgot the cardinal rule of CRM. It takes 3 years to win a new customer and a mere 3 seconds to lose a customer. I was away for two weeks so didn’t have time to follow the ‘soap opera’.