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Win a Copy of the New Oracle Multimedia Book!

My good friend, Marcelle Kratochvil, is the Oracle ACE Director for (as she put it to me) “all data/any data.” She’s been working with Oracle since V4 and specializes in Oracle Multimedia. She has been a beta tester for this product since Oracle8i and…

Posted 17 May 2013 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

How to Get 32 Scrabble Points with SEEN

Back in mid-March, I wrote:A week ago, I played a game of Scabble with Veva and scored 32 points by placing the word “SEEN” on the board. Now, every letter in “SEEN” is worth 1 point, making it very difficult to get to 32 points. But I attached “SEEN”…

Posted 08 May 2013 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

What I Look Like When Shaving Stops

Haven’t shaved for two weeks. Decided to give my skin a break, and I also wondered: what do I really look like? Shaving my head is, I have come to accept, the “main vain” thing I do in my life (well, that and painting flamboyan flowers on my toenails)….

Posted 08 May 2013 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Can’t please everyone, I suppose

Back in April 2010, I started up the PL/SQL Challenge (www.plsqlchallenge.com) to provide quizzes on PL/SQL, SQL, logic and Oracle Application Express.Hundreds of people take these quizzes each day. Since that time, over 670,000 answers have been submi…

Posted 08 May 2013 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °