--- title: links for 2007-03-22 date: 2007-03-22T23:31:02Z modified: 2007-03-22T23:31:02Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/links-for-2007-03-22/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 969 categories: - Uncategorized timestamp: 2007-03-22T23:31:02Z tags: - Uncategorized --- - [FT.com / Companies / IT – Oracle shares surge as earnings soar](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b3d3ccee-d735-11db-b9d7-000b5df10621,_i_nbePage=9a36c1aa-3016-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html) Well done Oracle. Great quarter. The growth in database and middleware is impressive. (tags: [Oracle](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Oracle)) - [Prosecutor Says Bush Appointees Interfered With Tobacco Case – washingtonpost.com](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032102713.html?referrer=email) “The leader of the Justice Department team that prosecuted a landmark lawsuit against tobacco companies said yesterday that Bush administration political appointees repeatedly ordered her to take steps that weakened the government’s racketeering case” (tags: [poltics](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/poltics) [graft](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/graft)) - [NOVELL: Novell Open PR » Blog Archive » Mea culpa](http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=305) Oops. clarifying whether Novell is a financial backer of the Free Software Foundation. It isn’t. (tags: [Novell](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Novell) [FSF](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/FSF)) - [stormhoekcoupon2.pdf (application/pdf Object)](http://www.stormhoek.com/stormhoekcoupon2.pdf) Threshers discount again. Hugh is milking this one. ` (tags: [Thresher](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Thresher) [Stormhoek](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Stormhoek)) - [ARena: 3D Renault](http://blogs.adobe.com/arena/2007/03/3d_renault.html) Renault goes with Acrobat 3D. This is a pretty big win for Adobe, given its ambitions in cadcam. (tags: [Adobe](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Adobe) [Acrobat](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Acrobat)) - [Carsonified! » Blog Archive » Screw Apple Mail and iCal, I’m moving to Outlook 2007](http://www.carsonified.com/gtd/gtd-tips-outlook-2007) Web guy cans Apple iMail for Outlook 2007. (tags: [Outlook](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Outlook) [Apple](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Apple) [Carsonified](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Carsonified)) - [An Antic Disposition: Cannibalism](http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/cannibalism.html) Rob Weir continues his war against Open XML. Not sure why mentions the CTO though- most enterprises dont even have one. That’s a vendor thing, Rob. (tags: [ODF](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/ODF) [XML](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/XML) [OpenXML](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/OpenXML)) - [Fixing Firefox’s memory leak](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1327586/posts) will this do it? Firefox memory leaks. (tags: [Firefox](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Firefox)) - [Alternative Tentacles – Store](http://www.alternativetentacles.com/product.php?product=1267) bloodhad- thrash metal about sci-fi authors such as Anne McAffrey, and now canon people like George Orwell. crazy. (tags: [music](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/music) [SXSW](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/SXSW)) - [Library House – Venture Blog](http://www.libraryhouse.net/blog/2007/03/22/more-attention-required-please/) Twitter is going geometric in Europe too. Not sure what the “irony” is wrt SMS. Twitter is working for me- I am learning from it, ergo attention is not a problem (tags: [Twitter](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Twitter)) - [Global Neighbourhoods: Stiffs on a Plane](http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2007/03/stiffs_on_a_pla.html) Seriously, with millions and millions of people in transit at all times all over the world, some of them will die. I don’t know what else the airline can do in such cases. I’ve sat next to worse company on a couple of recent flights. (tags: [comedy](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/comedy) [death](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/death)) - [Ryan Stewart – Rich Internet Application Mountaineer » Valleywag – A Non Story about Scoble and Adobe](http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=722) RedMonk: We’re getting paid by Adobe. We wrote about them before they paid us, and we’ll keep writing about them if they stop paying us. Its natural you write about folks you spend time with. Duh! Scoble reads a lot of devs, they’re talking apollo! (tags: [Adobe](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Adobe) [blogs](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/blogs) [Scoble](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Scoble)) - [Happy Iranian New Year! « Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger](http://scobleizer.com/2007/03/20/happy-iranian-new-year-2/) Happy Nouroz to all Iranians/Persians, Kurds, Turks and others that celebrate Nouroz today. (tags: [Iran](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Iran)) - [A VC: Ubiquity = Starbucks (continued)](http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/03/ubiquity_starbu.html) paul macca now sells his music via starbucks. another reason to find a cooler coffee shop with decent music free wifi to hang out in. (tags: [starbucks](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/starbucks) [bedouin](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/bedouin)) - [» Adobe’s Q1 financials show “developer revenue” is still very small | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com](http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=317) Should Adobe care about/continue its push into the enterprise? Its less than 7% of revenue last time I looked. The question is rhetorical from me, but investors might look at the issue differently. (tags: [Adobe](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Adobe) [enterprise](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/enterprise)) - [Policy Dialogue International](http://www.policy-dialogue.com/shared/item.php?id=96) Oracle sponsors dialogie about shared public services (tags: [Oracle](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Oracle) [public](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/public) [services](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/services)) - [silk and spinach: breaking the ice](http://silkandspinach.net/blog/2007/02/breaking_the_ic.html) this blog is shaping up to be extremely helpful for people wondering about agility. solid actionable advice. “Bill suggests that we begin by writing just one test – any test – for every class in the system. The tests can be as simple as you like; their on (tags: [agile](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/agile) [adoption](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/adoption) [refactoring](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/refactoring) [legacy](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/legacy) [via:theotherthomasotter](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/via:theotherthomasotter)) - [Rachel Davies: How do you recognise an Agile company?](http://twelve71.typepad.com/rachel/2007/01/how_do_you_reco.html) How do you recognise an agile organisation? Rachel looks for the smell of agile. “Companies who serve poor quality canteen food with plastic knives and forks don’t trust their employees much and so the teams are likely to have a hard time getting the empo (tags: [agile](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/agile) [development](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/development)) - [Utility Gets Jump on Carbon Trading Market, Buys Emissions Credits from Nike](http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2007/03/utility_gets_ju.html) holy shit. the new carbon trading economy gets real? (tags: [greening](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/greening)) - [EDS’ Next Big Thing Blog : Graphic relationship of scientific paradigms](https://www.eds.com/sites/cs/blogs/eds_next_big_thing_blog/archive/2007/03/22/graphic-relationship-of-scientific-paradigms.aspx) paradigm shifts- visualised (tags: [science](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/science))