{"id":1215,"date":"2007-02-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2007-02-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T12:00:00","slug":"almost-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/25\/almost-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after months of prevarication, staring into space and waiting hours for about five words to come out, I finally had the breakthrough that I was looking for with the Hotsos Symposium paper today. I wouldn&#8217;t say it was 12 hours solid work, but I haven&#8217;t done much else.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still not actually <i>finished<\/i> of course &#128521; but I&#8217;ve reached the stage where I know now that it will be &#8211; hopefully in the next day or two. As promised, I&#8217;ll stick it up on the website as soon as it&#8217;s done, mistakes and all, so that anyone who cares can have a look and say &#8216;yeah, but &#8230;&#8217; or &#8216;no, I don&#8217;t think so&#8217;. I was going to ask a couple of people to review it but the time-scales are too unreasonable to ask, so I&#8217;ll leave it up to those who think they have some free time over the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Just for once, I&#8217;ll try not to say that it&#8217;s going to be a personal disappointment (even if it is &#128521;).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit much, though, isn&#8217;t it? A blog about\u00a0<i>nearly<\/i> finishing? Well, when you know your boss reads your blog, maybe it&#8217;s a not-very-subtle plea for a bit more time on it this week &#128521;<\/p>\n<p>Presentation slides? Did someone mention presentation slides?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after months of prevarication, staring into space and waiting hours for about five words to come out, I finally had the breakthrough that I was looking for with the Hotsos Symposium paper today. I wouldn&#8217;t say it was 12 hours solid work, but I haven&#8217;t done much else. It&#8217;s still not actually finished of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/25\/almost-there\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Almost There<\/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-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1103,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/you-cant-open-an-instance-and-you-dont-start-up-a-database\/","url_meta":{"origin":1215,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;You can&#8217;t open an instance and you don&#8217;t start up a database&#8221;","date":"October 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, so the title is a cheeky and irrelevant steal from here. 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