{"id":1536,"date":"2009-10-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2009-10-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T12:00:00","slug":"oow-2009-going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/16\/oow-2009-going-home\/","title":{"rendered":"OOW 2009 – Going Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the time has arrived. We’re just waiting for our car to take us to the airport and it’s time to say thanks to ….<\/p>\n

– Friends, Oak Table Network Members, and fellow ACEs (some qualify in all
\nthree categories) who are the essence of attending the conference for
\nme. I only wish there weren’t so many friends that I didn’t get as much of a chance to see as I might have liked. It’s difficult keeping up.
– Justin, Vikki, Lillian and all at OTN who take care of the ACEs and so many other things.
– All involved in the organisation of Oracle Closed World.
– Alex Gorbachev, OTN, Pythian and HP for a very successful Blogger’s Meet-up.<\/p>\n

I’m bound to have forgotten people, but I find coming to these events very inspiring as well as tiring and that’s largely down to other people.<\/p>\n

Just to reassure people that I do take better care of the Cuddly Toys than you think, this is them ready to go …<\/p>\n

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but what you don’t know, is that there’s someone missing! When I turned up to Oracle Closed World on day 2, he was sitting at the table because the boys from Miracle had brought him over from Denmark!<\/p>\n

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Yes, Roger has not only been living in Denmark since the last UKOUG conference<\/a>, he was now in a secret location in San Francisco and, trust me, I was not<\/em> expecting to see him there! He seems to have acquired a hint of a Danish accent and has obviously turned into a complete Oracle conference junkie. However, foolishly, I left him again<\/em> and so now he is on his way back to Denmark. Hopefully I’ll see him at UKOUG in Birmingham although perhaps he thinks he has moved on to higher and better things than I can provide 🙁<\/p>\n

Disclosure: I’m attending this year’s Openworld Conference at the
\ninvitation of the Oracle ACE Director program, which is paying my
\ntravel and accommodation expenses. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the time has arrived. We’re just waiting for our car to take us to the airport and it’s time to say thanks to …. – Friends, Oak Table Network Members, and fellow ACEs (some qualify in all three categories) who are the essence of attending the conference for me. 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