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Movember 2012: The ‘stache returns! 30 Oct 2012 | 05:16 pm
In 2011, I joined many others in the Movember event for the first time. This is a fund-raising effort where participants grow a mustache for the month of November and collect donations to support men’...
OOW 2010 Plans and Anti-plans 31 Aug 2010 | 05:24 pm
I have plenty of things that are keeping me busy for OOW 2010 and you’ll all get to see the results at the event (if you’re there), but I only have one traditional technical session where I’ll be on s...
unplumb (or unbinding) NICs on Linux 17 Jul 2010 | 04:30 pm
I’ve been quiet for a long time now, but this entry hopefully will shake the cobwebs off and get me back into the habit. I recently had a need to “unplumb” (from Solaris fame) or make interfaces on L...
New job, lots of exciting stuff 27 May 2009 | 09:31 am
It’s been a week since I started my new job at Oracle Corporation. I’m a remote worker which means that the first day of work wasn’t the usual event since I just went to my home office and got on a co...
Scuba diving pre-ODTUG Kaleidoscope, Monterey, 21-June-2009 27 May 2009 | 07:28 am
I’m very pleased to report that I will be able to meet up with ODTUG Kaleidoscope attendees at both the ODTUG Community Service Day (2nd Annual!) and my own scuba dive outing as well. If you can, I’d ...
Oracle’s latest acquisition: Me 4 May 2009 | 04:07 pm
I’m definitely the type of person that gets excited by new opportunities and always loves a new challenge. Without challenge, I get bored quickly and boredom makes me a little crazy. So, this new opp...
Collaborate 09: Don’t miss these sessions 1 May 2009 | 03:07 am
Collaborate 09 starts on Sunday, May 3 (a few days from now!) in Orlando. I’ve been offline for several weeks (more on that later), but will be returning to the world of computers and technology in fu...
ADV: RAC Attack Hands-on Event at Collaborate09 31 Mar 2009 | 03:49 am
The RAC SIG, Oracle and IOUG are thrilled to present the hands-on event dubbed “RAC Attack!” at Collaborate09 in Orlando, FL. It is a half-day University Session in the IOUG Forum scheduled for the mo...
Exadata front and center 20 Mar 2009 | 02:52 pm
Just in case you were like me and did not tune in for Oracle’s quarterly earnings concall, there were some interesting highlights. As many of you (well, there aren’t that many of you that read this, b...
Congratulations New Oracle ACE, Jeremy Schneider! 19 Mar 2009 | 02:29 pm
I’ll be the first to offer a large congratulations to Jeremy Schneider on being the most recent appointment to the Oracle ACE program. He certainly deserves it (I nominated him, so I suppose I would t...
