{"id":849,"date":"2006-03-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2006-03-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T12:00:00","slug":"happy-birthday-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/03\/happy-birthday-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Including the time spent on Tripod’s blogging tool (the one that didn’t record comments properly), I started this a year ago today.<\/p>\n

I could do a review, but my head is still full of matters parallel and I’ve just had to stick a flowery shirt in the washing machine when I discovered that Monday’s Gala Night is themed ‘Party in Paradise’. Hopefully the shirt will dry in time or I’ll have nothing to wear 😉<\/p>\n

I have to say that I’m not particularly looking forward to the trip. I thought a Continental flight to Newark and then on to Dallas would be convenient. That is until they changed the schedule on me and now I have a 4:15 wait at Newark. Over 16 hours seems a bit steep for Edinburgh-Dallas.<\/p>\n

Still, I just bought a second laptop battery and I have plenty to be getting on with. Even at this late stage I’m still<\/span> running tests and I’ll be sticking the results on a memory stick and reviewing them in transit and leading up to the start of the conference. I mention this in case you bump into me and I seem a little preoccupied 😉<\/p>\n

The next blogs should be from Dallas. Hopefully I’ll be able to give you a few more details of what to expect from the presentations if you are thinking of attending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Including the time spent on Tripod’s blogging tool (the one that didn’t record comments properly), I started this a year ago today. I could do a review, but my head is still full of matters parallel and I’ve just had to stick a flowery shirt in the washing machine when I discovered that Monday’s Gala… Continue reading Happy Birthday Blog<\/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-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":848,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/04\/half-way-there\/","url_meta":{"origin":849,"position":0},"title":"Half-way there","date":"March 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Better than half-way distance, but not time. 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