Pythian Blog and Rman

Courtesy of the pythian blog i found out something very interesting .
The blog title using rman for database growth trend actually brings up the usefulness of the catalog.
currently i've been using the catalog to tell me to some extent the tapes that my backups are on which makes it much faster to communicate to the tape library folks and get the ball rolling faster.
http://www.pythian.com/blogs/318/using-rman-repository-for-database-growth-trend

Oracle 10.2 and failed account logins

Something i was just recently trying to figure out and something that i should have looked at is the new behaviour of 10.2.0.2 and the default profile . pythian groups has the blog entry which seems to be very well timed.
http://www.pythian.com/blogs/284/oracle-102-migrations-%e2%80%93-account-lockedtimed-and-failed_login_attempts

Jonathan Lewis Now in the Blogosphere

Looking at a couple of posts and the Orana aggregator it seems that jonathan Lewis has hit the blog circles at
http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/
This is a really nice addition to the blogging community since jonathan always brings a wealth of knowledge in his articles .