A week last Saturday I checked my email and found an invitation to the Oracle ACE program. I was extremely flattered and instantly accepted. I spent the next few minutes preening myself whilst reading the news on Slashdot and The Register. Then I noticed that China had bought Google, Slashdot had gone pink and Tom Kyte had joined Microsoft. I checked the date and sure enough, it was the 1st of April (April fools day).
Needless to say I felt like a total jerk and responded to the mail with a, “Very funny. How vain am I to fall for that?” type response.
The funny thing is, it was actually real. You can see my ugly mug here.
I also noticed that Jeff Hunter now an Oracle ACE. Well done mate!
Of course, the pressure is on bigtime. Got to live up to this “ACE-dom” thing. I’m off to save the world!
Cheers
Tim…
Congratulations, Tim. You deserve it for all of those articles, initial drafts excepted 😉
Cheers,
Doug
Conragtulations sir(I gave already right;-)!)
regards
Aman
Yikes. I’m “The Other” Jeff Hunter.
Oracle ACE well deserved. Thank you for everything you have offered and will offer to the Oracle community.
Congrats to the almost last (and least useful) contributor to the great Natural Vs. Synthetic Keys debate (*grin*).
Seriously, nice going – a well-deserved accolade to a true ace.
I’ll lift a glass in your honor (NOT that I need and excuse, mind you ;-D).
Thanks dude!
“6th from last” just doesn’t sound as snappy as “the last” does it! 🙁
I would have got away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling (5 other) posters… 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
PS. Don’t strain that arm raising that glass 🙂
I wrote about that episode here: http://t.co/HYnr61iH0J