Category: Archive

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

… through the Blogger darkness 😉 “Hi Doug, You’re current rank in the World Cup 2006 APEX application is 32 out of 347. Some more info: – Played Games: 8– Correct prediction of games: 6– Wrong prediction of games: 2– Correct prediction of score: 1– Wrong prediction of score: 7– Your points: 8Have a nice… Continue reading Dimitri Keeps Me Going …

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

Thanks to Peter Scott for noticing that I appeared to be clogging up Orablogs with spam. I immediately assumed this was something to do with the new blog, but it’s actually at http://oracledoug.blogspot.com. When I go into my control panel, the blog is still there, but I can’t re-publish properly. So I reckon that means… Continue reading Blogger Hacked?

I’m on-call and have been called out a lot. My blogger blog has been hijacked by spammers. It’s taking an age to get my old blogs moved across. I’ll get there but, for now, I need to log off, chill out and maybe even sleep.

At 5pm BST today, Germany kick off the 2006 World Cup Finals against Costa Rica. I’ll be a bit late for this first match because I have to finish work and stop off on the way home to pick my new TV up from a delivery depot. I tried to go for a balance between… Continue reading World Cup Fever!

Well, not so much a new blog as a new home. Tired of not being able to run any decent software because of hosting restrictions, I’ve decided it’s time to bite the bullet and move hosting providers. I’ve been extremely keen to avoid any significant work on web stuff because I have enough on my… Continue reading My new blog

For anyone with specific experience and interest in Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence issues, here’s your chance to build up that community a little. Mark Rittman’s looking for more people to get involved with the forum he runs. I’m in no position to lecture anyone about community involvement, but I would have thought it was in your… Continue reading Data Warehouse / BI Community

Mr. Ellison

When I restored an old template recently to cure a formatting problem, I lost the most recently added links, which I’ve now restored. Although I use Thunderbird to stay up to date with most blogs, I sometimes use these links to browse around a bit, so that’s their main purpose and I’m glad their back.… Continue reading Updated Links