{"id":1472,"date":"2009-02-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2009-02-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T12:00:00","slug":"people-like-to-have-one-number-they-can-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/people-like-to-have-one-number-they-can-believe-in\/","title":{"rendered":"“People like to have one number they can believe in.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love this article<\/a> that I found via Greg Plavik’s blog<\/a>. Not being a financial risk management expert means that I can’t claim whether it’s right or wrong, but I found it interesting.<\/p>\n

Why I mention it on this blog is that I spent almost the entire time reading it thinking that the writer could have been talking about IT in general and Oracle performance in particular. That quote above is one of dozens I could have plucked out and reminded me of an old blog post<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It’s a long article, but read it and see what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love this article that I found via Greg Plavik’s blog. Not being a financial risk management expert means that I can’t claim whether it’s right or wrong, but I found it interesting. Why I mention it on this blog is that I spent almost the entire time reading it thinking that the writer could… Continue reading “People like to have one number they can believe in.”<\/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-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1423,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/03\/dude-its-a-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":1472,"position":0},"title":"dude – it’s a blog","date":"August 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I'm back from two weeks holiday away from the net and a pile of blog comments and emails to catch up on. I'll leave those for tomorrow. A quickie for now, though. 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