Diary of My Life for 2010/11/12

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This page shows the results of using my following the MyLifeBits Approach to document everything significant in my Daily Life, along with the associated Digital Assets.
I used my cell/mobile phone, which is a standard off-the-shelf Internet-enabled Nokia, with Camera and Video.
We used the camera to photo documents instead of using a scanner.
The words in bold could be used to tag each Activity for search purposes or to build a dynamic Topic classification.

Here's an example of Searching my Collection of Digital Assets stored in the Database.
This page has evolved into a combination Blog, Contacts list, Diary, '2 Do List' Reminder and Work In Progress.
Here's a diagram of the Database for the My Life Development Project.

I began the original Diary after a Trip with my wife to Lake Lugarno,Switzerland in April, 2007

Activities and Links

DATE OF ENTRY	TOPIC TAG	ACTIVITY	LINKS
July 14th. 2012 11.00 pm	KPI and Blog	As part of my new KPI (Key Person of Influence) Program, I started a Blog with WordPress.	Barry's Blog
March 11th. 2012 4.00 pm	D Mgt Assessment	Check out the Data Management Assessment Questionnaire on the Data Blueprint Web Site.	Data Blueprint Web Site
March 11th. 2012 4.00 pm	Maersk	Email address for Jean-Thomas Meyer is jtm010 at maersk.com.
March 5th. 2012 9.30 pm	MicroStrategy	MicroStrategy is a front-runner in providing Cloud-based BI.	MicroStrategty in Gartner Conference in Atlanta
March 4th. 2012 8.30 pm	BI Ready	Consider partnering as System Integrator with BI Ready, Expressor and Teradata (using Amazon in the Clouds).	BI Ready Expressor Int'l VAR Expressor Systems Integrators Teradata + Amazon EC2 in Clouds Teradata Developer Exchange Teradata - Download for Amazon EC2 Teradata Education Network Teradata Express(or)
March 3rd. 2012 10.30 pm	Oman	Tourist attractions include the Al-Bustan Palace, probably the most famous hotel in the Middle East and the Wahiba Sands	Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque Audley Travel Cox and Kings Voyage Jules Verne
February 18th. 2012 7.00 am	Government Cloud (US)	A new Initiative reported by Tech America	G-Cloud (USA)
October 9th. 10.00 am	Splethorne and Termites	Contact customer services on 01784 451499 and ask about help with Termites.	Spelthorne Customer Services
October 8th. 11.00 am	Video Game Development	Excellent intro by Wikipedia.	Video Game Development
September 17th. 7.00 pm	Rental Apt / Hotel in Copenhagen	Q Management was used by someone at Maersk - they offer a special deal of 7 days for 3465 DKK Phone (+45) 3524 5599. Email info@q-management.com Hotel Hebron looks OK for weekend deals - but expensive unless they offer a Maersk rate.	Q Management Special Offer Hebron Offers
September 16th. 11.00 pm	POC for BI in the Clouds	WhereScape RED looks good, but maybe not really what I want - Leganto also looks promising but is from Israel - use it as a basis for Oracle Apex	Legato LinkedIn Discussion WhereScape RED DW
August 20th. 11.30 am	Enterprise Data Models	EDM has three or four generations - 1) large and unusable but provides valuable info about data in the enterprise. Good for requirements against vendor offerings 2) - Second generation is smaller, usable, often Canonical and often with specific target such as loading data into a DWH in consistent fmt or messages for ESB/SOA. 3) - Third Generation - Top-Level with Subject Areas - 3rd. party Models can be dropped into these Subject Areas, (or,of course, be new ones - eg ARTS,Oracle RMS. 4) State-of-the-Art is to combine Generations two and three.	Canonical Data Models
July 17th. 11.30 am	Book	Manga looks promising ;-0) CreateSpace ISBN-13: 978-1466237414 ISBN-10: 1466237414	Book on Amazon Download Options Great Review
July 15th. 11.30 pm	Book	CreateSpace can help in getting published with Kindle. Email from CreateSpace goes to barryw@dba.org.	CreateSpace Homepage Design Space CreateSpace
July 15th. 11.30 pm	Book	Kindle Direct Publishing is a sensible option ;-0) - Use MobiPocket.	Kindle Getting Started
June 26th. 11.30 pm	Book	Smashwords - looks like a good one-stop shop -registered with bw@dba.org	Smashword Smashword Description My Account
June 16th. 11.00 pm	Book	Lulu and Blurb and Unbound (?)	Blurb Lulu Unbound
June 27th. 6.30 am	Ottawa	Very good Telegraph article.	Ottawa
May 10th. 8.00 pm	Arabic in Oman	Looking for a School for N in September - very hot from June to August - so still too hot in early September.	AmeriSpan in Oman
May 2nd. 6.00 pm	Blonde Highlights	Ideas for hair and blonde highlights from from Rihanna.	Rihanna
May 1st. 10.30 am	Oracle Apex	Ahmed - Username: barry / Pwd: m123/Workspace: BARRY_WSP	Ahmed's Apex Apex and Amazon Apex Hosting Services
May 1st. 10.00 am	Oracle Apex	New Web Site for Apex Evangelists in the UK looks good ;-0)	Apex Evangelists Apex Evangelists Blog Getting Started with Oracle
May 1st. 9.30 am	Oracle Apex	Application Express from Application-Outsource - Workspace: LOCALFAVOURITES / User Name:FL566 / Pwd: m123 SQL Developer Access / Schema Information: ------------------------------------------ User Name (Schema): localfavourites Pwd: (Schema Password): jfdH9qsa Host Name: enciva-uk7.net Port: 1521 SID: XE	Login
April 30th. 7.30 pm	KPIs	In his 'XXX' book, Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, describes on page their KPI of Sales Revenue to Installation cost of 2 to 1. He used this to detmemeine which were the 600 places to close in 2009.	CloudSleuth
April 25th. 10.00 am	Cloud Computing	CloudSleuth look interesting and has a very well-designed Web Site.	CloudSleuth
April 25th. 10.00 am	Al Jarreau	Al Jarreau is in the UK in July at the Festival Hall on Sunday, July 3rd. 2011. The Impressions are at the Barbican on June 10th. and Ramsery Lewis is at the Union Chapel BluesFest on July 2nd.	Tickets for Al Jarreau Tickets for Impressions Tickets for Ramsey Lewis
April 25th. 10.00 am	Al Jarreau	Al Jarreau is in the UK in July at the Festival Hall on Sunday, July 3rd. 2011. The Impressions are at the Barbican on June 10th. and Ramsery Lewis is at the Union Chapel BluesFest on July 2nd.	Tickets for Al Jarreau Tickets for Impressions Tickets for Ramsey Lewis
April 24th. 10.00 pm	MS Access	This OpenGate site offers some useful Access Add-ons, lile a GUI Builder.	OpenGate Software
April 17th. 10.30 am	Cheese	N likes Swiss Alp Panorama from Waitrose and Barry likes Cropwell Bishop Blue Stilton.	Waitrose Cropwell Bishop Blue Stilton Swiss Panorama Chees
April 15th. 8.00 am	Database Concepts	Here's a Wipedia entry for some Basic Concepts for my Tutorials.	DB Concepts
April 12th. 8.00 am	BMEWS	Goran says "Let's link BMEWS and Complex Event Processing (CEP)".	BMEWS Demo CEP Oracle CEP Blog
April 12th. 7.30 am	Music	Here's a great track called "The Smoke from a Distant Fire" by the Sanford Townsend Band	YouTube Video
April 10th. 11.30 pm	Cloud Computing	Certification and Specialisation with the major players.	IBM Specialisations Oracle Specialisation
April 9th. 11.30 am	Currency Trading	Learn to be a Foreign Exchange Trader from Greg Secker	Learn the Secrets Locations
April 9th. 11.10 am	Living by the River	Waters Edge Estate Agents.	Waters Edge Homes
April 9th. 11.00 am	Car Boot Sale	Saturday mornings in Shepperton - highly recommended.	Shepperton Car Boot Sales
April 8th. 9.00 am	PDF Convert	Google "Free PDF Convert" produces lots of results, and here is the first one (from Baltsoft in Lithuania), which runs as a service.	Baltsoft Free PDF Convert
March 27th. 9.00 am	MDM	Here's a good Web Site for 'Model-Driven MDM' from Orchestra (Boston and London), with good words for marketing BI services.	Agile BI Orchestra MDM
March 27th. 9.00 am	Music	Here's a great African-Funk Band called Orchestre Poly-Rythmo.	Cotonou Club CD
March 25th. 7.00 pm	Teradata	An excellent Site with some good material on Modelling, and an interesting discussion about Logical versus Physical Models. KPIs are mentioned in the EDW RoadMap Modelling Paper. I signed up for T-Pass on the Teradata Web Site as barryw@dba.org/m123.	Appliances Discussion Idealism vs Reality EDW RoadMap Modelling Financial Services Model Financial Services DWH Getting Started Insurance Data Model Master Data Mgt Modelling + Bus Insight(pdf) Platform Familty Retail Model
March 25th. 10.30 am	Avaloq - Swiss Banking	Avaloq offers a free e-Learning facility - login elearning, with pwd elearning - But there is no material and their email link doesn't work!!!	eLearning Portal
March 19th. 10.30 pm	Data Models	Data Model Patterns are great ;-0) and Scott Ambler has written a good 101 level introduciton..	Data Modelling 101
March 19th. 10.00 pm	SOA	I will design and (maybe) build an Oracle implementation of a Generic BMEWS Data Architecture. To get started, here are some interesting SOA Web Links.	BMEWS BMEWS Architecture Data Model Transformation Patterns SOA Consortium
March 19th. 8.00 pm	Sony Vaio	My Service Tag is C6X03KEG. N's Service Tag is C6039W8F.	Sony (UK)
March 19th. 7.00 pm	Baroosh	Baroosh has introduced a great beer from the States called Blue Moon. It is based on a Belgian wheat-style beer and is light and fresh.	Baroosh (Staines) Wikipedia on Blue Moon
March 19th. 6.30 pm	BMEWS	I came across the Blue Ocean approach to marketing which offers a new concept.	Blue Ocean Strategy Wikipedia on Blue Ocean
March 19th. 9.30 am	TK Maxx	I registered with TK Maxx as info@bw.org	TK Maxx Web Site TKM Retail Data Model
March 19th. 9.00 am	Food Diary	Weight - 93.4 Kg Breakfast - Oats with one small banana Lunch - TBD Dinner - TBD	Extras (from Waitrose) - - Two Toffee and Pecan Cookies - One Oats and Sultana Cookie - One bottle of Elderflower water
December 23rd. 10.30 pm	BI in the Clouds	I have signed up for trials with some BI in the Clouds Services - which all happen to be Open Source Suppliers !!! Birt supports Google Maps and Birt Mashups.	Actuate BIRT On Demand BIRST JasperSoft LogiXML Pentaho
December 14th. 9.30 am	Oracle	I will get more involved with Oracle - starting with Steven.Kirby (the SOA guy who hasn't replied to my email of last Thursday).	Developer-Days
December 14th. 9.00 am	DBA Brand	I signed up for a free Global Brand Audit of Database Answers.	DadaPro
November 3rd. 10.00 pm	Local Authorities	In a letter to the Standard, Councillor Colin Barrow of Westminster City Council justifed the merging of services from Hammersmith, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea.	Colin Barrow
November 2nd. 11.55 pm	John Holmes	800-0837-252/06266401/818507
August 28th. 10.45 pm	Cloud Dashboards	Dashboards in the Clouds from GoodData	Good Data What is Good Data ?
August 28th. 10.35 pm	Cloud Integration	Here's something new and interesting - Data Integration "in the Clouds"	SnapLogic Snap Logic Demo SnapLogic and Salesforce
August 28th. 10.30 pm	Usability Testing	CHECK THIS OUT - 'Usability Testing in the Clouds" from Loop 11.	Loop11 Usability Testing
July 16th. 8.30 am	PayPal	I was a victim of Identity Theft. Someone managaed to steal £54 from Paypal using the name of ROBERT WILLIAMS and the Regatta House address. They used an email address I never heard of, which was mcap@fastservice.com. I reported it to the Surrey Police and was given the Incident number of P10217983.
May 26th. 7.00 pm	IBM	I attended the IBM Business Partners Day at the South Bank. I decided to be an IBM Global Entrepreneur ;0) I should prepare a demo using IBM Software of my Business Partners Toolkit and my Vision of the Future of Ubiquitous Data/Information - and try to comnbine them for a third Entry linked to IBM's Smarter Planet Vision. They have to be ready by July 2nd and the demo on July 21st..	IBM Global Entrepreneur IBM Smarter Planet My Vision of the Future
May 9th. 9.30 am	WIP	Email Geoff and Geoff Marketing material - Egypt, UK, Semantic Web - Call Endeca in Richmond on 0203 166 4400 - their Info Access Platform is similar to my UNiversal Info Arch.	Endeca My Universal Info Arch
May 1st. 9.30 am	Organisations 2 Join	I should consider joining DAMA (UK) £30 GRI "Fees are from 100 to 10.000" TDWI - £270.	Dama (UK) GRI TDWI
April 28th. 11.30 pm	Oracle	Oracle Content is categorised as part of Fusion Middleware and it might be useful for the Glossary-DSriven User Interface.	Oracle Content Mgt Oracle Content Mgt Solns
April 28th. 11.30 am	Prestatyn	Called John at Reeds, Rains on 01745-852-448. He recommended I call Property Services Group (PSG) on 01745-344080 to ask them to do a HIP (for £200 +VAT).	Reeds, Rains
April 28th. 11.00 am	Egypt	Booked for "Spotlight on Egypt" and charged 2x£25 to my NatWest Business Card (for N also). 9.30 am Tuesday, May 18th. in the Hilton Hotel, Reading. Create email address for norlias@databaseanswers.org	Egyptian-British Chamber Thams Valley Chamber
April 28th. 7.45 am	Glossary	The Objective is to develop a Proof-of-Concept for a Glossary-Driven User Interface to establish what is the State-of-the-Art and what is feasible in May, 2010. The Approach is :- Complete the Plan for the Proof-of-Concept (POC). Create static HTML pages by hand in the POC, and then Database-driven in a Pilot. Populate 50 Terms in the Glossary (two for each letter except for Q and Z). Finalize how results are presented to the User.	Proof-of-Concept An Entry in the Glossary of Terms
April 28th. 7.30 am	2DoList	Call Reading Chamber of Commerce on 01753-870500 to book for Spotlight on Egypt on 18th. May at 9.30 am in Hilton Hotel, REading. Reply to MelissaData Email Mila - chk at the weekend on TeamTest and reply on Monday. Complete documents for :- Egypt, (also UK with Holloway and MS Research in Cambridge instead of American U and Cairo) Informatica - send draft to David Lyle and then submit entry to nthe Marketplace Contest. Southend - phrase as Strategy with 1 year and 5 year Goals.
April 28th. 7.00 am	Louis Perez	Phone - 459915
April 27th. 8.30 am	Informatica	I had problems trying to use Informatica Cloud because the Salesforce connection didn't work. Dave Lyle (US) - VP Product Strategy - dlyle@informatic.com Mike Fox (UK Public Sector Sales Mgr) - mfox@informatica.com Enter the MarketPlace Contest (closing date is July 30th.) Submit an Entry featuring :- Lean Integration - Production Line Community of Prolessionals Self-Service Tutorials Templates - CRM, Government,Law Enforcement. Features include - Cloud data integration services, Data Models, Mappings, Reference dictionaries, Tutorials/how-to guides and Vertical industry-specific solutions.	Cloud Integration eXchange Informatica Cloud MarketPlace Contest
April 27th. 8.30 am	Contacts	American University in Cairo - Computer Science and Engineering Dept.- csce@aucegypt.edu. AUC New Cairo - E-mail: ocm@aucegypt.edu AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74 New Cairo 11835, Egypt. Phone: +20.2.2615.1000 ASG who sell the Rochade Metadata Repository - TDWI BP Awards - is by the Station in Staines. Microsoft Egypt - Phone +202 5393333. Microsoft Research in Cairo - Phone Violet - 00-202-27689700 Tell them this page doesn't work "http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/Egypt/CMIC/Contact.aspx	ASG Rochade
April 19th. 9.00 pm	Vocabulary UI	I posted my Question on Experts-Exchange and LinkedIn. LinkedIn was great and EE was very disappointing.	Experts-Exchange LinkedIn
19th. March 11.00 pm	Salesforce & Partners	I signed up as a Partner with - IBM - IBM ID = dba@gmail.com / pwd = m123 Microsoft - info@barryw.org / pwd = m3 (ID 2142316) Salesforce - funky_dba@mw.com / changed to new pwd = m789 on March 19th (signed up as for a free Developer account which lasts forever). Sign up with Oracle as $500 Silver Partner.	IBM Login M'soft Partner Network M'soft Profile Salesforce Login
February 13th 11.00 pm	Egypt	Starting a business in Egypt - 300 Egyptian Pounds = £35, includes a Methodology	American Chamber of Commerce Embassy in London PwC Starting a Business Methodology Russell Bedford (Cairo) Russell Bedford (London)
January 16th 9.30 pm	MyLife	Today's Telegraph reports that LG has introduced a Network Attached Server (NAS) device called NZB 1DD1 which will allow you to access files on your home PC over the Internet from anywhere in the world. But it is not mentioned on the LG Web Site, or even Gizmodo. It also mentions a Mobile Media Industry Watcher called Tigerspike which offer an UGC (User Generated Content) Enterprise Digital Platform called Phoenix, which caters for "... mobile, online and social media solutions". Tigerspike has a beatuifully designed Web Site.	Gizmodo Iomega NAS TigerSpike
January 16th 9.00 pm	Salesforce	Salesforce has introduced Chatter which is a Platform for building Social Networking Applications.	Chatter
January 9th 5.30 pm	Kidjo	Angelique Kidjo has a new Album out called Oyo which is worth checking out for downloadable MP3 tracks.	Amazon (UK) Kidojo on Amazon
January 2nd. 5.30 pm	Laptop Bags	London's Knomo ("Knowledge Mobility") Bags are mentioned in today's Daily Telegraph and look great for my new Sony 10" laptop (Vaio W). Available at London Luggage in Westfield (Shepherds Bush) and Selfridges. For laptops, either the Bungo or (for women) the Leather Slim (£70). When you visit the Web Site, at the bottom of the screen, it tracks the products you have looked at. This makes it easier to go back to any of them. Maybe that would be useful for Database Answers ?.	Knomo Screenshot Men's Laptop Bag Brilliant Web Designs Database Answers
January 1st. 3.00 pm	Marketing	Sayings of Chairman Andrew :- "The Challenge is to solve their Problem, not getting them to agree with me". [RBW] says "Try a different Approach :- 1. List your skills 2. Determine how they can be packaged to solve different kinds of Problems. eg Tutorials, a Book, Data Modelling, Advice on the State-of-the-Art".