I just arrived in San Francisco.The flights weren’t that bad after all. Actually the local flight from LA to San Francisco was really good! There was a steward called Tim and he was really funny. With the safety procedure he put humor into it and with …
I’m currently sitting on a British Airways flight over to San Francisco, getting my demos and presentations sorted out for tomorrow. I’ve got an early start in the morning with an 8.30 slot as part of the IOUG Forum, doing a session on extending and customizing the Oracle BI Applications data warehouse. After that I’ve [...]
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Sunday, Sept 20, 2008: Day 1 of my trip to San Francisco for OOW 2008. This post is all about the journey, not the destination.
7:10am EST
I’m in the airport in Tampa. Free wireless. TPA is one of the …
LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
Sunday, Sept 20, 2008: Day 1 of my trip to San Francisco for OOW 2008. This post is all about the journey, not the destination.
7:10am EST
I’m in the airport in Tampa. Free wireless. TPA is one of the …
After watching my name bounce from 3rd, to 2nd, to 1st, then back to 2nd in the standby list I finally got on the plane. Talk about relief!
Well I’m in San Francisco at the Serrano hotel, just across from the Hilton. I smell of long haul plane, but I’m going straight out to register and [...]
By this time tomorrow, I’ll be winging my way to the Bay Area for OpenWorld.
One of the first things I need to do tomorrow is race to the Unconference onsite signups in Moscone West and move my Essential Geek-Speak session to a better time, like say one that doesn’t overlap with Larry’s keynote.
You may recall [...]
I just notice on Sven Blog that 11.1.0.7 is available. I have recently upgraded my connection at home so it took a bit less than half an hour to download this 1.5G patchset
$ wget -O p6890831_111070_Linux-x86-64.zip http://oracle-updates.oracle…
–10:17:40– http://oracle-updates.oracle.com/ARUConnect/p6890831_111070_Linux-x86-64..
Resolving oracle-updates.oracle.com… 87.248.199.23, 87.248.199.24
Connecting to oracle-updates.oracle.com|87.248.199.23|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 1,613,366,248 (1.5G) [application/zip]
100%[==================================>] 1,613,366,248 [...]
I’m currently in the UK waiting for my next flight.It will be a long day as my first flight was at 7.25 AM from Brussels to London. My next flight is in 2 hours to LA. I first thought to drive together with John Scott from LA to San Francisco to see th…
I was told about 23:00 last night I would be on a flight at 9:45 this morning. I’ve been standing in a queue for an hour to be told I’m not on the flight. I’m currently 2nd on the standby list for a flight that has been overbooked by about 50 people. I really don’t [...]
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