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My swimwear doesn’t quite come up to scratch.

I received an invitation to join the Oaktable Network which I’ve decided to accept. It wasn’t a straightforward decision but went something like this. (Oh, and by the way, this blog could have been much longer!) For I like the Oaktable members that I’ve met to date and found them very passionate and generous individuals.… Continue reading Oaktable Network

I received some timely mail when I arrived home today. Bearing in mind Howard’s blog about his personal feelings about presenting at a User Group event (and it was obvious to me that he was talking about his personal feelings) and Tom Kyte’s mention of it in his blog today (welcome back Tom, but please… Continue reading UKOUG 2006 – Call for Papers

While out shopping yesterday, I noticed this for �10, which was a no-brainer. It’s the best tenner I’ve spent in a long, long time and the only down-side is the two of us having to prise ourselves away from it long enough to make food, eat, sleep etc … Although many of the games work… Continue reading Old Classics

Well that was an interesting if not too productive weekend. I’d been keen to install Solaris 10 on the ISP4400, which went very well. These things are always time-consuming but I was interleaving it with normal human activity to make up for my recent mental absence from those around me. So it was a lift… Continue reading Solaris 10 and Oracle 10g

I noticed that Tom Kyte’s Hotsos Photos are available on flickr. I was going to blame him for making me look even scarier than normal but then I remembered thinking I would make a funny face because I’m not that keen on having my photo taken. Mission accomplished, I’d say! There’s some pretty good photos… Continue reading Tom Kyte’s Hotsos Photos

Sorry to disappoint you, but there isn’t one. Having received two emails in 24 hours asking me for copies of presentations, I thought I should make my position clear here. If anyone wants a copy of my Hotsos presentations or papers, you only have to ask and I’ll be happy to supply them – the… Continue reading Free Hotsos Materials Link Here!

I haven’t been keeping up with asktom lately but I noticed this one when I had a glance today and enjoyed it. Take a look at the last follow-up, dated 14th March 2006, and Tom’s answer. Very true and very appropriate to my recent work. Perhaps the questioner should take the number 1.53215 and display… Continue reading Benchmarking

Now that I’ve had time to sit back and relax and absorb things a little, I thought I should fix a couple of outright bugs in the recent PX paper (Later update – link to the paper) and revisit the conclusions before moving on to testing different aspects. First, the bugs :- I’ve changed processes… Continue reading PX and “the Magic of 2”

When I left for the US, Edinburgh was covered in snow. It returned yesterday to the extent that Edinburgh airport was closed for a while. The Continental flight in from New York was diverted to Belfast. Now that would have been fun 🙁