{"id":873,"date":"2006-01-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2006-01-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T12:00:00","slug":"bits-and-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/25\/bits-and-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having finally finished work for the day, I have some bits and pieces before I get back to the Hotsos tests.<\/p>\n

Mike Scott<\/span>
I mentioned that Mike Scott<\/a> has been been really helpful with preparing test environments and offering intelligent argument. Mike’s a Unix System Administrator and has some really interesting articles on his web site that he produced for Sys Admin magazine. He’s also decided to start a blog<\/a> and I said I’d give it a mention here. To be honest, I’m just jealous of his template 😉<\/p>\n

I’m always on the look-out for good Unix and hardware information, so feel free to suggest any good sites you know of.<\/p>\n

Technical Links<\/span>
To help people navigate the blog, I’ve added links in the side-bar to some previous technical postings (leaving out the moaning, soft animals and opinionated non-Oracle rubbish). What a disappointing number of technical blogs! Must try harder …<\/p>\n

Howard’s Wiki<\/span>
(That sounds quite rude!) After all of the recent discussion about OraQA, Howard Rogers has decided to host an Oracle Wiki<\/a> as an experiment. The standard of articles so far is tremendous and I can only hope it continues in that vein.<\/p>\n

Hottest Blog of the Week<\/span>
I’ve really enjoyed Eddie’s ‘pronunciation blog’<\/a> and there are two of them<\/a> 😉 That subject used to really pre-occupy me, because I was self-taught at home and so I made a monumental fool of myself when I first started work in offices and mis-pronounced everything! Teaching people soon fixed that, though – my way or ridicule! (I promise that’s a joke)<\/p>\n

I predict a riot …<\/span>
Ah, that Andy C …. Uncontroversial, as always<\/a>! Let’s hope Niall doesn’t see it! (He’s the only Liverpool supporter I know of in the community, but I can’t see him putting up much of an argument …). To be honest, Andy’s always got something funny and interesting<\/a> to say …. (That’s just a tired, end-of-day pick – it’s all good stuff)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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