Most of the time I write about stuff I’m interested in, but occasionally I’m forced into writing something to prevent me answering the same question again and again. This is one of those moments and it’s been several years in the making. The last time I tried to muster up the enthusiasm was on a [...]
I was about 1/3 of the way through Fool Moon, the second book in the Dresden Files series, when the book went missing (insert Twilight Zone music here), so I switched to book 3 (Grave Peril) while I wait for Amazon to send me a new copy. What with the illness and timezone change, I’ve [...]
It’s about 40 hours since I arrived back in the UK. Almost as soon as I got through the door I started to shiver so violently that I could hardly move. I eventually made it upstairs and got into the bath. Since that point my time has been spent switching between scalding hot baths and [...]
My brief stay in New Zealand is coming to an end. Later today I will be getting on a plane to start my journey home to the UK. I can’t say I’m looking forward to the flights, but it has to be done… Due to some bad planning on my part, I didn’t get to [...]
Day 2 started with an ACE panel session. There were more ACEs than attendees, but we all had fun chatting to each other. I guess one of the difficulties with this was it ran along side regular presentations, but such is life. Straight after that it was the second part of my PL/SQL Presentation Layers [...]
One of the few advantages of such long flights as UK to New Zealand is you get plenty of time to read. I’ve mentioned several times that I’ve struggled to find something to follow the Discworld series. Several people recommended The Dresden Files series so I went out and bought the first few books. I [...]
The day started in the normal way. First, an introduction by Francisco, the new president of NZOUG, then some keynotes, then on to the presentations… One of the difficult things about being a speaker at so many conferences is you often struggle to see something on the agenda you have not already seen several times around [...]
I walked off the 7 hour flight to Dubai, straight on to the 13+ hour flight to Melbourne. I got a 1 hour rest at Melbourne while they cleaned the plane, before I started the 3+ hour flight to Auckland. I got to Auckland at about 14:00 where I was met by one of my [...]
Today is the day I fly to New Zealand to present at the NZOUG conference. I got to the airport 2 hours before the flight as usual, but I’ve been here 3 hours already and I’ve still not boarded the plane. I have a long wait at Dubai, so this delay shouldn’t affect my connection. It’s [...]
Hot on the heels of version 3.0.7 comes an additional security fix (3.0.7-PL1). Cheers Tim…