General Blathering

I haven’t really posted anything in a couple weeks so I thought I would throw a little blog update out.  Work and life have been a bit busy and that’s been keeping me from my usual routine, but things should be getting back to normal pretty soon, so look forward to UCM and really more middleware posts as well.

Happy Blog Anniversary

So it’s been a year since I “really” started the blog.  The URL and some amount of content has been out here really for two years, but the ContentOnContentManagment.com you know began about a one year ago in September.

I am not sure how to evaluate the “success” of a blog, but writing and maintaing this thing has been an extremely rewarding and also challenging endeavor.  I’ve met quite a few nice people across the globe and also engaged in some great discussions.  All I can say is that it’s been great fun and I look forward to another year of writing.  Thanks very much for reading if you do, I hope you’ve gotten something out of it it, I know I have from your participation.

So What Have You Been Doing?

For the past few weeks I have to admit to a small obsession with anything related to the Large Hadron Collider.  The collider, which while I write this is hours away from being started up, is the gigantic 17 mile long science experiment out in Geneva.  My interest started of course with all the doomsday stuff, I mean how can you ignore something like that?  I started doing some reading and now I am just hooked on it.  I’m still a little freaked, but wow some of the things they are going to discover are just incredible.

One possible outcome for the CERN LHC….this is a joke

 
The reality is that the LHC is aimed at discovering new things, and when you’re doing that it’s always easy for other to point out that there’s an unknown.  Just from a personal perspective(and I know nothing about physics), I have to imagine particles end up colliding all the time, if it was possible to spawn off planet eating black holes that way I am sure we’d see quite a few more black holes around then we do now.  Thats the general crux of the LHC team’s argument, in addition to the massive amount of research and science backing their predictions.  I could be wrong, they could be wrong, but I’m onboard…good luck to those LHC folks today.

Oracle OpenWorld

OpenWorld is just around the corner and I’m pumped.  Like last year, I’m planning on posting the daily log of what I am seeing.  I may also twitter, we’ll see how that goes…Perhaps this year there will be pictures, who knows.

While I’m out there I am hoping to meet some of you, so definitely shoot me an email if you’re going to be there.