And in Kotaku's E3 coverage:

Zach Nelson doesn't hide his hero worship, does he? The Netsuite CEO pulls off the kingly pose of his company's founder, the CEO of Oracle, just right. And a reader says Zach's riding dad's wheels too:

• You can't nab a two-, three-, or four-letter web domain. You can't register your first name. And everything sexy is taken. But if your company's named H43Qmxy, you're golden. [Domain name stats]

Reason #78 that it's awesome to be Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: Every now and then, for no apparent reason, the Mercury News will help you sell your house.

It's a very special episode of "Your Privacy is an Illusion:" today, we identify Larry Ellison's loo.

It's like Christmas and Boat Porn Day rolled into one: the SF Chron's Technology Chronicles splatters a whole gallery of photos from Larry Ellison's emergency backup yacht. Last night Netsuite (Larry Ellison's Salesforce.com killer) threw a yacht party — to generally celebrate being rich — on the richly furnished boat.

Fighting server issues and fidgety comment accounts this week, Valleywag readers bravely soldiered on in the War to be Witty.

He built another boat — Oracle founder Larry Ellison and his Oracle BMW racing team brought 500 guests to a "naming ceremony" for their new boat. It's unclear whether "USA 87" was the chosen name or the replaced placeholder, but I desperately hope it's the latter.

Forbes milks its Billionaire List publicity with billionaire horoscopes, built from commentary by professional astrologists. (Yes, this is how Forbes spends its budget.) Their lead: lots of rich folks were born under the sign of the virgin. (All right, who else predicted that?)

Larry Ellison's startup NetSuite Inc. is finally prepping for its IPO. The software company expects to slide into the black later this year. NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson is shooting for a $100 million valuation.

What's he building in there? A tipster sent this Larry Ellison spy report on Saturday:

SF mayor Gavin Newsom, explaining his friendship with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin:

This is why geeks shouldn't have free time: they might go and make a Star Wars spoof. Some SAP AG employee jets around on a scooter as "Darth Ellison" (a popular nickname for Larry Ellison, CEO of enemy enterprise software company Oracle). He's beaten back by the perfect-enunciation team of "Jedi ABAP" and "Jedi Java." The end credits call it a "private joke" — private for YouTube, anyway.

In a perfect world, every true Valley celeb sighting would involve raccoons and crossbows. For now, this story about Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, by the inimitable blogger Curt Hopkins, can feed your bizarre robber-baron fantasies.

Larry Ellison became the Michael Jordan of Oracle (not by leaving the game, playing the minor leagues, and coming back to much fanfare — that's Steve Jobs) when he forgot to tape over an embarrassing logo on a widely viewed video.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveils his company's Secure Enterprise Search:

While some tech moguls make careful plans for the eventual transformation of life and thought as we know it, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is applying "mathematical and experimental analysis" to that grandest of human achievements: a really fast boat.

So Oracle bought Sleepycat. Congrats to the now very wealthy Bostic and Seltzer, but y'all do realize you've sold your heads to a guillotine salesman, right?

Slate published its 2005 Slate 60, the leaderboard for "competitive philanthropy." As always, the list of the top charitable donations and pledges includes a good showing from the tech industry.

Scott McNealy made a few good jabs at his frenemy Microsoft. The Sun CEO's best gag was implying he wants to shoot Bill Gates in the face. Ha! Ha! Such friendly jests!