You know that Facebook is the next big thing when your aunt in Canada, your brother in Lebanon and your friend in Dubai join it. #

This is one of uncle Larry’s homes. He owns 12 properties in Malibu alone, with a total value of $180 million. This one is only $20 million. It has a cable railway that acts as a shuttle between the mansion and the pool. Impressive!

Source: Haute Living. Via: Valleywag.

The latest addition to Gmail keyboard shortcuts is the pound sign # (Shift+3). Go ahead, try it. http://tinyurl.com/2bdywp # Can’t wait any longer. I have to do my taxes. April 15 is fast approaching. # This year’s tax filing deadline is April 17 (not 15). [...]

Just activated the following Wordpress plugins on my blog: Share this, Twitter tools and the Delicious Daily Posting Formatter. # Let’s see if the new plugins work as advertised, By the way, you can view all my Wordpress plugins at http://awads.net/wp/wp-plugins-i-use/ #

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Are you a computer programmer? Here is what Half Sigma thinks about your profession:

Computer programming is a low prestige profession. As you get older, your desire to completely relearn everything decreases, so you are likely to succumb to the temptation of staying with the familiar technology for too long. Whatever your position is, as a Computer Science [...]

When you code, you write your programs either in all lower case, all upper case, or a combination of the two. Let’s take PL/SQL for example, almost all PL/SQL programming best practices and coding styles that I’ve come across recommend using upper and lower. The following is an excerpt from the book Oracle PL/SQL Best [...]

I stumbled upon the Business Rules of Thumb Wiki via Seth Godin blog. For example:

In a negotiation, he who cares less, wins. - Anonymous Simple and inexpensive beats complicated and expensive. - Rod Elder The best way to find good ideas is to let people tell you what the good ideas are. - Niel Robertson In public speaking, [...]

Here is an interesting post about things you should avoid blogging about. I could not agree more with the following:

…There’s no real point to those “I can’t blog ’cause I’m too busy” posts other than giving a cop-out for not keeping up with your blog. People come to your blog to read your [...]

I’m having too much fun with PikiPimp this Sunday evening

With the increase in the number of blogs aggregated by OraNA, the idea of categorizing blogs into smaller groups, each with its own theme and its own feed may be a good idea (for me, I still want to keep track of everything).

For example, there are aggregators that aggregate blogs about JDeveloper and others that [...]