Posts Categorized: News

Sun To Be Acquired by Oracle

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Wow — that’s some news that I just read about today: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp?goback=.hom — Sun Microsystems is to be acquired by Oracle! Prepare for new model of licensing for Java — starting with Personal edition at £500 and ending up with Enterprise that will only run on Oracle 10g and cost around £500k! All you EJB […]

Blog Structure Update

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For those of you who haven’t noticed, I’ve changed the permalinks structure on this blog — as apparently “pretty” URL’s do affect the search ranking — so fingers crossed, you should see my blog now appearing everywhere 🙂

Here Come the Men in Black!

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I’ve just watched an amazing victory by Saracens this weekend where they took the game right from under London Wasps noses in the very last minutes of the game. After leading throughout the whole game 12-9 based on penalty kicks (well done, Glen Jackson! 😉 Wasps managed to score a try with about 3 minutes […]

Women Watch Too Much Cricket! :)

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I was just having a look at Microsoft’s tool for demographics prediction (http://adlab.microsoft.com/Demographics-Prediction/) and started getting curious about what is the split in between men and women when watching sport and here’s some interesting data that this tool predicts (Sky peeps you’d better listen out if you want to target your audience properly!): football: that […]

Job Hunting and Free Entertainment

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As you might have been aware I have started looking for a job (well, only just really 🙂 Now, that turned out to be a brilliant move in terms of brighting up my day! Because, damn, as much as I enjoy my late rising during the day (ah, how good it feels to get out […]

Snow in London

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I’m sure we’ve all “enjoyed” this, with TfL going to a halt and no traffic going through Central London, but for the record, that’s what it looked like the evening before the day when the snow has literally frozen London.

LinkedIn and WordPress

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I’m sure many have used the WordPress LinkedIn application to post some of their blog content onto LinkedIn — and like them so did I. I’m still contemplating whether it was a mistake or not as the moment I’ve put the post about my leaving IntelliTXT team onto LinkedIn I got tons of emails — […]

Leaving IntelliTXT…

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I haven’t updated this blog in a while nor have I been checking emails on the liviutudor.com domain account and it appears Murphy’s law applies in such cases — as I had indeed one email asking about the WordPress plugin for IntelliTXT which has been sitting in my inbox for about a week now. Should […]