Ask Mr. Ed

Tim Russert passed away on Friday. He was a great host for Meet the Press. He asked the tough follow-up questions that you wanted to ask the politicians. But yet, judging from what many of his colleagues have said, he was one of the nicest guys you'd ever meet.

We know that compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) are dangerous. Now, businesses might be held liable. But the businesses are not the ones forcing us to switch to CFLs in time for the London Olympics. The part about tuna--then and now--is pretty illuminating of the whole CFL story. Or just about any environmental issue, really.

A beagle named Uno won the Westminster dog show. He's the first beagle to ever win that show. Looks like he is the Knut of dogs right now. Or maybe a real-life Snoopy.

There's one politician that everyone has been calling a rock star, lately. Shockingly, here's the evidence to back up that claim.

Charles Hurt perfectly describes the checkmate by Democrats in the 2008 presidential election.

It's snowing in Baghdad.

When I watched Sunday Night Live--the Keynote with Larry Ellison from Oracle OpenWorld 2007--I thought it was interesting that they had current and former cast members of Saturday Night Live. Typical corporate event for famous people, I suppose. Kevin Nealon did a good job, considering the nature of the material. Victoria Jackson was great, too.

But now I read about the writer's strike affecting SNL, and how they just fired a large portion of their production staff. Don't know how this affects the actors, but it can't be good for them, either. Good thing some (one?) of them got a few extra Hamiltons to help them get through this season.

And don't forget: Tom Kite is a great professional golfer, but Tom Kyte is also a great professional Oracle employee.

Oracle Database 11g Release 1, or Oracle 11.1, is now available for download for Windows (x86 and x64), Linux (x86 and x64), Solaris (SPARC), AIX, and HPUX (Itanium).

Obama and Cheney are related. My question is: if they go hunting together, who gets non-fatally fragged?

As many others have pointed out, Oracle Database 11.1.0.6.0 (11g) is available for Linux. The documentation is available, as well as the Oracle 11g home page.