{"id":1103,"date":"2006-10-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2006-10-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T12:00:00","slug":"you-cant-open-an-instance-and-you-dont-start-up-a-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/you-cant-open-an-instance-and-you-dont-start-up-a-database\/","title":{"rendered":"“You can’t open an instance and you don’t start up a database”"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, so the title is a cheeky and irrelevant steal from here<\/a>. The truth is that I’ve been so busy with non-computer stuff, work stuff that’s vaguely computer-related 😉 and lacking in inspiration lately that I’ll take whatever material comes my way! Here are a few things hanging around my Inbox. Hopefully you’ll find something interesting in there and, even if you don’t, I won’t have that scroll-bar on my Inbox any more 😉<\/p>\n

DG Tournament<\/b>
I really enjoyed Dimitri’s World Cup 2006 APEX contest and it looks like he’s released a more generic version that will cover multiple sporting events – DG Tournament<\/a>.

Animal Party?<\/b>
Based on previous experience<\/a>, I hesitated before posting this link to a rather large video<\/a>, but it’s funny and very relevant to this blog. I suppose it’s not suitable for the more sensitive workplace and any children in the immediate vicinity may ask some awkward questions 😉 The Boys will not be viewing this!<\/p>\n

A Bizarre Debate<\/b>
<\/b>I’m almost at a loss to describe this<\/a>. Thanks to the Oracle-WTF<\/a> guys for the entertainment.

Hotsos Symposium 2007<\/b>
I received a newsletter today advertising that registration for the Hotsos Symposium 2007<\/a> is open now. Don’t leave it too late and hopefully I’ll see some of you there.<\/p>\n

For my next trick, I’ll turn the server back on and probably have some more to say about ZFS. Either that, or one of The Boys will do something to make me laugh and I’ll blog about that instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, so the title is a cheeky and irrelevant steal from here. The truth is that I’ve been so busy with non-computer stuff, work stuff that’s vaguely computer-related 😉 and lacking in inspiration lately that I’ll take whatever material comes my way! Here are a few things hanging around my Inbox. Hopefully you’ll find something… Continue reading “You can’t open an instance and you don’t start up a database”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1253,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/12\/im-a-writer\/","url_meta":{"origin":1103,"position":0},"title":"I’m a writer!","date":"April 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I wish. When I was young, before I saw my first computer, I wanted to be either a journalist or a lawyer \ud83d\ude09However, Tony Davis (who used to be an editor at Apress) is now responsible for this website and actually paid me real money for this article! 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