{"id":810,"date":"2006-04-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2006-04-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T12:00:00","slug":"shrek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/23\/shrek\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrek!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased to be able to use that as a blog title. Shrek (as he seems to be known by most people in the Oracle Community) is actually Bill Thater. His blog lives here<\/a>. I met Shrek for the first time at the Hotsos Symposium last month and he’s a lovely guy and been doing this Oracle thing for quite a while. Check it out.<\/p>\n

I also noticed that everyone seems to be in transit just now. Mark Rittman’s arrived in Nashville<\/a> (guitar in hand, no doubt), Tom Kyte’s in Europe<\/a>. Me? I’ll be in Manchester on Thursday 😉 I’m looking forward to it because I’ll see a few familiar faces and Jeff Moss is threatening to talk to me about PX all night. (Actually, that’s a lie, I think I threatened it first)<\/p>\n

I can’t remember precisely how Peter Robson and I left this, but either he’ll be doing some guest blogs here on his experiences in Nashville, or perhaps he’ll start his own temporary blog. I, for one, want to know what’s going on over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased to be able to use that as a blog title. Shrek (as he seems to be known by most people in the Oracle Community) is actually Bill Thater. His blog lives here. I met Shrek for the first time at the Hotsos Symposium last month and he’s a lovely guy and been doing… Continue reading Shrek!<\/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-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1090,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/miracle-dbf-day-1-875\/","url_meta":{"origin":810,"position":0},"title":"Miracle DBF – Day 1.875","date":"September 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We all went back to one of the houses (a couple of doors down from the one I'm in) for lots of drink and chat. I carefully stuck to the beer and talk of presentations, written and unwritten. 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