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I’m plodding away, trying to get the new blog sorted out. On the one hand, I’m fairly pleased that the bulk of the old blogs have been copied over successfully, including 1) Reader comments 2) Getting the photos moved off Blogger on to my own host On the other, there’s still a lot to do… Continue reading Harder than it should be

Well there are a lot of new templates on this blog and you can choose your own. Many of them don’t work too well with the current content. The Direct Path Reads blog is a particularly interesting template test 🙁 I’d be interested, though, to hear which are the most popular and more important, why?… Continue reading Time for a vote, I think

Hotsos has long since passed and it’s time for someone else to have a bit of recognition. This is Derek Junior. An invisible turtle called Derek lived in the bath in our last home. Invisible turtles and house moves are a bad combination and he was left behind. We have no idea what happened to… Continue reading Derek Junior

Yet Another PX Test (if only to give readers something different to comment on) Jonathan Lewis had suggested larger extents and freelist segment space management (instead of ASSM) could benefit the PX tests I’ve been running. I’m pretty sure it was Jeff Moss that suggested bigger blocks would be more appropriate for the type of… Continue reading YAPT

I’ve added a link to Dominic’s blog, which I’ve enjoyed reading since I noticed it when he commented on a blog here. He hasn’t been going long but it looks really promising. Dominic worked at Oracle for a long time and is Director of Database Engineering at Network Solutions now. I didn’t make his presentation… Continue reading Dominic Delmolino’s blog

I received an invitation to join the Oaktable Network which I’ve decided to accept. It wasn’t a straightforward decision but went something like this. (Oh, and by the way, this blog could have been much longer!) For I like the Oaktable members that I’ve met to date and found them very passionate and generous individuals.… Continue reading Oaktable Network

My swimwear doesn’t quite come up to scratch.

I received some timely mail when I arrived home today. Bearing in mind Howard’s blog about his personal feelings about presenting at a User Group event (and it was obvious to me that he was talking about his personal feelings) and Tom Kyte’s mention of it in his blog today (welcome back Tom, but please… Continue reading UKOUG 2006 – Call for Papers

Well that was an interesting if not too productive weekend. I’d been keen to install Solaris 10 on the ISP4400, which went very well. These things are always time-consuming but I was interleaving it with normal human activity to make up for my recent mental absence from those around me. So it was a lift… Continue reading Solaris 10 and Oracle 10g

While out shopping yesterday, I noticed this for �10, which was a no-brainer. It’s the best tenner I’ve spent in a long, long time and the only down-side is the two of us having to prise ourselves away from it long enough to make food, eat, sleep etc … Although many of the games work… Continue reading Old Classics