{"id":1611,"date":"2010-09-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2010-09-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T12:00:00","slug":"swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/05\/swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow – almost 4 months since my last post that could be described as vaguely technical<\/a>. It’s amazing how time flies when you’re having fun. (Although there may be a hint of irony in that statement.)<\/p>\n

Work has been insane for various reasons and personal life has been unusually involved too so I’ve really had no inclination to blog, far less time. In fact, I ended up having to cancel my attendance at both MOTS and Openworld because I really couldn’t justify the time away in September and have had no time to work on presentations properly. I know I’ll miss both events once I start reading all of the blog posts but I’m trying not to think about it too much and hopefully my abstract for UKOUG is accepted and I can catch up with people there.<\/p>\n

However, work has thrown up several interesting things to blog about to add to the already long list, so now that things have calmed down a little I’m hoping to get back into the swing of things again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow – almost 4 months since my last post that could be described as vaguely technical. It’s amazing how time flies when you’re having fun. (Although there may be a hint of irony in that statement.) Work has been insane for various reasons and personal life has been unusually involved too so I’ve really had… Continue reading Swing!<\/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-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1280,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/blogs-oracle-com-oracle-ace-otn-does-any-of-it-matter\/","url_meta":{"origin":1611,"position":0},"title":"blogs.oracle.com, Oracle Ace, OTN, does any of it matter?","date":"June 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I actually woke up early today to write this blog as I wanted to sleep on it first and blogging on-site is a real no-no. 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