Today’s the first day of school in my city, and the plethora of “OMG 1st day of school!” posts of Facebook and my own kids heading back in to slog through another year of fundamentals got me thinking about education. My own kids (12/daughter and 10/son) came home and went
Category: Miscellaneous
The Customer Experience
I’m going to kick this post off by taking sides in a long-standing feud. Apple is amazing. There. Edgy, right? Okay, so maybe you don’t agree with me, but you have to admit that a whole lot of people do. Why is that? Sure, there’s the snarky few that believe
Database 12c Exam Voucher Contest
Ready for a Database 12c Beta Exam? Tim Hall–and I’m totally not kissing up here but he is an amazingly benevolent model citizen–is holding a comment contest for a voucher to take the Oracle Database 12c: Installation and Administration (1Z1-062) beta exam for free. The rules are listed out clearly,
Victim of a Ninja Strike
Since today is Monday and many of my devoted readers are at IOUG Collaborate 2013 (C13DEN) I decided to post one of my more lighthearted stories. It’s a harrowing tale of how I was a victim of ninja trickery — no, let’s not mince words, it was a strike —