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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 °

The Fire, part II

Turns out there are many more good things to be said about this incident:a. The entire house will be cleaned for Christmas.b. All windows will be cleaned.c. The entire first floor will be re-painted.d. We’ll get a complete list of our posessions.e. Sin…

Posted 10 December 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Boring life.

As my 18-year old daughter Christine said yesterday when she arrived at the scene: “There’s ALWAYS something going on in this house.”Here’s what happened:We have insufficient pressure on the cold water in our house these days. It means that something m…

Posted 29 November 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Things I learned at Oracle Open World in SFO 2008

I just came back from a few days at OOW, and it was fun. I shared a biggish apartment with Anjo Kolk, Krister (Sweden) and Oliver (Danish CSC), and it was beautiful to see the beer bottles (good beers, mind you!) gradually filling up the kitchen table …

Posted 20 November 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle copies MOOW :-)

As you all know, Miracle held the first Miracle Oracle Open World (MOOW) conference at Lalandia earlier this year:http://miracleas.dk/index.asp?page=168&page2=390Alas, it didn’t take Oracle long to copy the idea…http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/E…

Posted 20 November 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Election in Denmark

The MEEP program is generating some interesting side-effects. Jan has fallen ill (and have been granted a few days off), about 10 other folks have shown interest (as in: They want to work for Miracle), and two IT magazines want to know more.MEEP is not…

Posted 07 November 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

MEEP: Miracle Extreme Education Program

Right, so it’s now October 22 and I haven’t written anything here since May 7. Not good. Might as well get started again.Here’s a text I sent out yesterday (yesternight, actually) to the OakTable-list:===================================================…

Posted 22 October 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °