This web site is the personal work of Jim Moore (informally known as “Jimmo”). It contains blog entries and articles on areas of interest to Jim. It is not intended as an authoritative source of information and it is entirely possible for there to be errors in any technical information available here.
About The Author
Jim “Jimmo” Moore is a Director within the Systems division at Oracle Corporation. The Systems division is responsible for the Solaris operating system, SPARC hardware platforms and associated technologies. Jim is currently responsible for Revenue Product Engineering across Europe, the Middle-East and Africa (EMEA).
Previously, Jim was a Director at Sun Microsystems, Inc. which was acquired by Oracle in 2010. Jim worked at Sun for fifteen years, originally as an engineer working on the Solaris operating system before moving into management.
Jim is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
All content is based on the personal views and opinions of the author and do not represent the views of Oracle, the British Computer Society or any other body.
What’s with the “Jimmo” nickname?
Jim is also known via the nickname “Jimmo” for historical reasons. Back when Jim first joined Sun Microsystems back in 1994, user login names for new employees were created by taking the first three letters of the first name and the first two letters of the last name. Hence, “jim” + “mo” = “jimmo”.
As there were already a few people called “Jim” in the organisation, many colleagues started using “Jimmo” as a nickname to differentiate from the others as a form of address. After many years of use, the nickname has stuck. So much so that it’s even part of his official email address at Oracle.
Follow via Twitter
You can also follow Jim via Twitter. Note, however, that Jim does not participate in lame “#follow4follow” or “follow-back” nonsense. If you’re interesting then maybe he’ll follow you back. If all you do is tweet pithy quotes, links or drivel - he won’t.
You can find out why on my page on the three most annoying Twitter user behaviours.
Why “fnordleblanket”?
Because his name is far from unique, Jim got fed up with being told he couldn’t use his own name when signing up for various social networking sites, etc.. As a result, he chose something pretty much guaranteed to be unique. Also, “fnordleblanket” sounds a bit warm, soft and cuddly.
