{"id":921,"date":"2005-11-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2005-11-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T12:00:00","slug":"blogger-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/01\/blogger-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to add my thanks to the UKOUG for the funding and Mark Rittman for the organisation. Like some others I felt it was a bit of a shame that, with 20 or so people on two different tables, I didn&#8217;t get to meet everyone properly. In fact, I ended up sitting between Jonathan Lewis and Niall Litchfield who were probably two of the people I know best! I still had a great time, but if we&#8217;d managed to have dinner earlier maybe we would have had time for a nightcap afterwards. As it was, everyone had to head off to get some sleep and prepare for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I attended the start of Mogen&#8217;s presentation. Only the start because I&#8217;ve seen the same presentation very recently at the Scottish OUG meeting, but I was keen to see him being piped to the stage by Thomas Presslie of the Scottish OUG committee. Yes, I really do mean bagpipes! Mogens likes to make an entrance &#128521; I watched the opening few slides which were hilarious and skipped out once he got to the meat of the presentation. My favourite line was &#8216;Yes, you can actually attach disks directly to a computer!&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to add my thanks to the UKOUG for the funding and Mark Rittman for the organisation. Like some others I felt it was a bit of a shame that, with 20 or so people on two different tables, I didn&#8217;t get to meet everyone properly. In fact, I ended up sitting between&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/01\/blogger-dinner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogger Dinner<\/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-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":975,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/08\/oug-scotland\/","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":0},"title":"OUG Scotland","date":"June 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been having a good time over the past day or two. Yesterday I gave the PX presentation to the Scottish branch of the OUG. As usual, I ran way over so I'm going to have to stop trying to 'do' PX in 45 minutes. 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