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How I got picked for special attention in Denver International Airport

So my wife Anette and I are on our way home from Tim’s wedding.We flew British Airways both ways. In Copenhagen I told a lady at the BA check-in counter that I might have discovered a way for terrorists to put bombs on planes without being on the plane…

Posted 06 August 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Tim is getting married…

Anette and I are in Denver, Colorado these days, because Tim Gorman is getting married to Lori tonight (Saturday). It’s a hot wedding: This is, I think, the 20th day in a row with over 90 degrees Fahrenheit, which makes it the hottest period since 1857…

Posted 02 August 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Free hash in Holland - and some fun consequences

I heard this story from a Dutch friend, and I’m sure a) he’s completely wrong and b) I’ve misunderstood everything he said. We must have been drunk both of us. With that in mind, here’s the story as I recall it….It’s legal to use hash in Holland. It’…

Posted 01 May 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

The beginning of Oracle Denmark

I started working for a bank called Sparekassen SDS 1st of January 1987. They had just bought Oracle, and that’s how I ended up in the database world.In 1990 I joined Oracle Denmark’s support organisation under the magnificient leadership of Jannik Ohl…

Posted 28 March 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

A Day On The Road (To Hell)

My ringtone on my mobile is currently Highway To Hell with AC/DC, but I thought Chris Rea’s The Road to Hell was more appropriate as a title today. I hope you’ll understand why after reading this.I’ve just come home from 10 days in a Danish town called…

Posted 20 March 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Unconventional Oracle Installs, part One

You have to watch this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHzV4LZnvHcWe’ll follow it up with a few other initiatives in order to help the big companies bring down the time spent to install Oracle from, say, 50 hours to one or two.

Posted 03 January 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Perrow and Normal Accidents

While reading the book ‘Deep Survival’ (most kindly given to me at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham by Sir Graham Wood of Oracle after the fire in my house) I happened on a description on page 107 of a book called ‘Normal Accidents’ by a fellow named…

Posted 03 January 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Two new angles on tuning/optimising Oracle

Now and then some new angles and thoughts emerge in a field where a lot of people think there’s not much new to be said.Two examples:1. James Morle told me a while ago, that he thinks all performance problems relate to skew, to latency, or to both. It’…

Posted 03 January 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Google - just another big, dumb, brutal organisation?

I found this article in The Economist interesting:http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10328123There’s some truth there, I think. Google is buying stuff (like blogger), is making pirate copies (sorry: clones) of other companies’ soft…

Posted 31 December 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Mobile phones, fats and backups

As with such things, life has been rather dull since the fire - relatively speaking. Fortunately, I had a wonderful thing happening to my mobile phone that brightened several of my days before Christmas.It all started about half a year ago, when the me…

Posted 27 December 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °