Good Oralce database blog..

Came across few postings on Oracle database at this blog. This time around author is covering on "Why Oracle Works the Way it Does". The author gives very good analogy on how Oracle internal works. Both this and this talks about Oracle table spaces/data files and Segments/extents respectively. The author helps one build quick understanding of oracle components. I was looking around for somethign similar for quite sometime. No doubt there are lot of people writting lot about how to use Oracle database effectively. This seiries in one more in the lot but a great read for wanna be DBA and Oracle database developer.

Scientists offer 10 basic questions to test your knowledge...

Stumble upon this article which takes you through a quick test of your knowledge of Science. The questions are not too difficult and checks you awareness of common science facts and concepts. Accourding to the article the list has been prepared by a group of elite scienctists and noble laurates. I managed to get a score of 75%.

Few Web 2.0 things..

Stumble upon this post, which talks about what how the next generation of User Profile management by Internet services giant like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others would lead us to. The post talks about this original article which appeared in MSN. Seeing the pace at which thing are moving in the Internet arena, and the Web 2.0 revolution, the Internet experience can get more personalized and become intimate part of out day to day life.

Few more new things which I came to know today was digg.com and www.technorati.com. Digg is a very good Technology news, blogs and RSS aggregator. While technoratti.com is a search for the Blogosphere. Both are great webservices.

www.feedburner.com was another thing, which I stumbled upon few days back. Feedburner helps is great utility for feed management.

Every now and then I get to know about new kinds of Internet services mostly around Collaboration and Social networking. It sometime gets difficult to cope with all this.. But anyways its flow and one has to flow with it. No doubt, this new breed of services are really useful and have taken the Internet experience to the next level.