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May 7, 2019 Uncategorized

Nostalgia and choosing your in-flight movie

First thing to note on this post. No tech content in this one. Just some nostalgia. Couple of days ago,

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March 11, 2019 Uncategorized

All of my Oracle Magazine articles

Generally my blog is just snippets of tech content that take my interest as I encounter them (most commonly when

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February 15, 2019 Uncategorized

Use the features available!

Advance warning: This post is a just another normal Friday morning rant. If you’re not interested in my pontificating, move

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November 24, 2018 Uncategorized

You need 10 minutes! Not 5, not 15, not 7

What follow is just my opinion….Well duh, it’s a blog, of course it’s just my opinion, but I’ll try back

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April 17, 2018 Uncategorized

When you screw up … make it positive for your users

Yesterday I was caught up in an interesting SNAFU at my local Supermarket.  All of the checkout registers shut down,

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April 2, 2018 Uncategorized

TO_DOG_YEAR

Some members of the Oracle community got well and truly into the April Fools Day spirit this year. There were

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March 21, 2018 Uncategorized

Trip down memory lane

I did a little video for St Patricks day, but it also brought back memories of my first computer experiences. 

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December 19, 2017 Uncategorized

2017–what grabbed your attention

Here are the blog posts that you hit on most this year.  Thanks for supporting the blog, and always, there

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November 7, 2017 Uncategorized

Buffer cache hit ratio–blast from the past

I was perusing some old content during a hard drive “spring clean” the other day, and I found an old

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September 28, 2017 Uncategorized

The devastating death PC emoji of doom

So there I am.  Sitting at Perth airport.  My flight from Perth to Sydney, the first leg on my trip

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