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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleRTFM ?
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...
View ArticleSoup
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...
View ArticleSo 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...
View ArticleThank 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleIn 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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