I have already blogged about it in the Pythian blog but I can’t refrain from mentioning it here in case you, my dear reader, didn’t get the message.
The names of the speakers (except maybe one whose last name starts with “G”) will tell you everything about quality of the content. However, you should not miss […]

The weather was excellent last weekend. I was on-call but, fortunately, the world is not without nice people. My colleague Virgil was very kind to cover me for couple hours so that we could enjoy our first skating experience in Ottawa.
There were impressive number of people:

See also: Canada skating

If you are like me and somehow missed it at that time…
Must see.
Click on Bajillio screen-cast.
Oh… make sure your browser is AJAX-y enough!
I can’t stop… I can’t stop…
sqlplus /nolog @oracloid_web_site.sql
See also: humor

My son Alex is a hero. He spent couple hours outside and by the time I could finally force him to go home the temperature went down to -15 with light breeze and somewhat high humidity. According to the local weather network it felt like 25 below zero.
See also: Canada

I.e. like SQL Server, for example. Set SERIALIZABLE parameter to TRUE and you get readers blocking writers. Dream of any Oracle DBA.
It seems that this parameter was documented in Oracle 7 documentation. Oracle 8i and 9i migration manuals say that it should not be used anymore and setting it to true is not supported. However, […]

While going through my Google Reader today I noticed this post on StorageMojo referencing Washington-Post article. Can anyone believe that someone could actually forget about those hi quality tapes for years? Impossible.
Plenty of sources claiming this was a fake landing I especially like this page with the image:

… and “9 space oddities” from just mentioned […]

Couple weeks ago we went skiing for the first time in Canada. We choose Camp Fortune for few hours of night skiing - it’s only 15 minutes from downtown Ottawa.
I’ve got one shot to share. It’s not the best but hey my Olympus C-5060 is quite old. I guess I have to think about proper […]

Today we had a “bye-bye Doug” dinner at Lone Star Texas Grill. From left to right - Alex Jr., me, Paul, Nicole, Olga and Doug (already switched to UK time zone as you can see):

They have excellent Fajitas. Of course, they serve Corona which is my second favorite beer after… eh… well, you know. They […]