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The animal had already started without me! Well, there was a bit of an argument between us, especially as he knows sod all about SQL. So it was a rather hasty return to his bag for him! From that point on the session proceeded normally, even if the audience were somewhat bemused – the normal reaction to my presentations anyway … 😉<\/p>\nPeter<\/p>\n
[doug]This looks like a bit of a cheat to me. Why can’t I see the audience in this picture?[\/doug]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Doug, I got the problem with my presentation sorted out. Here’s the story … 🙂 ‘Readers will recall that I had a bit of trouble with my presentation on Tuesday. I got to the room in good time, set the laptop up correctly, so it was displaying on the screen, then walked out of the… Continue reading Collaborate ’06 – Presentation Update II – by Peter Robson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":936,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/05\/oug-scotland-2005-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":800,"position":0},"title":"OUG Scotland 2005 Conference","date":"October 5, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday I attended the one day OUG Scotland conference in Glasgow. I think there must have been 200-300 attendees and there were three streams of presentations. 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