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Been There

It’s the end of the year and time for a retrospective of some sort so I was thinking of listing the top 10 most popular pages on my blog, but Connor McDonald beat me to it, so I decided to see if I...

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In Memoriam – 2

This is the second of two items that my mother typed out more than 25 years ago. I had very mixed emotions when reading it but ultimately I felt that it was a reminder that, despite all the nasty...

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In memoriam – 3

My father-in-law died a couple of weeks ago, aged 95. This is the story that he wrote for his children and grandchildren a few years ago describing his experiences as a Naval engineer on the aircraft...

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RTFM ?

My entrance at the Polish Oracle User Group conference 2017 has just resurfaced on Twitter. There is a back-story to this which contains an allegorical lesson in using Oracle. As I said in the opening...

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Soup

When my mother-in-law comes round to Sunday lunch we often have roast chicken – and a serious error in estimating the requirement for the vegetable bed I was roasting on led to the discovery of...

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Bait and Switch

Just what you need after a long hike in the Lake District:

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So long …

… and thanks for any Douglas Adams references. I decided on Friday that after more than 31 years using the Oracle software and more than 37 years of being self-employed in the computer industry – not...

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Thank You

Regular readers will have noticed that for the last few weeks I’ve been adding a footnote (now deleted) to any new blog posts asking for donations to the Nepal Youth Foundation (UK), with an offer to...

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“Priors”

I was listening to a podcast recently about “Thinking Clearly” when the presenter gave a very rapid description of a common mistake that occurs when human intuition meets statistical information. The...

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In Memoriam

My mother died a few weeks ago after a couple of months in terminal care. One of my tasks while she was in care was to go through all her paperwork and while doing so I discovered a couple of stories...

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