• Got my OCP card in the mail today. http://twitpic.com/230ilr #
• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-06:

  Blogged "ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 – The Journey So Far" htt… http://bit.ly/bVYwF2 #

• Cloud Comments: Comment on A quick overview of PuTTY and SSH for AWS Newbies by Installing a headless GeoServer on… http://bit.ly/d1jO66 #
• Interesting. Oracle Adds Support for Open-source R (the language) http://bit.ly/bpA7mh #
• I slept right through the bi 11g webcast. Didn't even notice it was AM until now. Bummer. #
• Blog Talk: Comment by Chris Barnhart on EDB Tip #4 Database Links in EDB http://bit.ly/9iyGHq #
• Blog Talk: Comment by Lewis Cunningham on EDB Tip #4 Database Links in EDB http://bit.ly/aSEngt #
• Interesting (dated) stat: oracle ebs 11i used hints on .3% of its 270000 queries.

• Blogged "ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 – The Journey So Far" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/39672/3 #
• #odtug #
• ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 – The Journey So Far http://it.toolbox.com/trd/73/2/39672/3/twitter #
• #odtug265 pigs, chickens and agile development with Maggie Tompkins. Maggie has made 14 consecutive kaleidoscopes. Wow! #
• I'm not a chicken or a pig. I'm more like a bacon flavored poultry product. #odtug295 #
• #odtug295 a scrum master can also be a pig. I didn't know that. #
• Maggie Tompkins #odtug295 http://twitpic.com/2111xd #
• 4 docs for scrum – func design doc, req tracability matrix, test design doc and db design doc. #odtug295 #
• #agile #odtug beware the ego maniac. The smartest guy.

• Blog Talk: Comment by Christopher Hamilton on Yahoo Sucks! Google wins. http://bit.ly/cb7OVe #
• @datachick I always thought waterboarding sounded like fun. Like dragging you around behind a boat on board. Wheeee! in reply to datachick #
• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-22:

  Blogged "Stupid Proc Tricks -The Weird and Wonderful Overl… http://bit.ly/bdSH3i #

• Blog Talk: Comment by jonesr on Yahoo Sucks! Google wins. http://bit.ly/daOfcG #
• Oracle's iRecruitment.com gives me an error on the 3rd page. It's slow too. #
• Blog Talk: Comment by Lewis Cunningham on Yahoo Sucks! Google wins. http://bit.ly/byaoKO #
• Having the surrogate key vs natural key discussion. Again. Ever get tired of doing the same thing over and over?

• Blogged "Stupid Proc Tricks -The Weird and Wonderful Overload" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/39311/3 #
• My 2 year old turned off the refrigerator and unscrewed the light bulb. I fear what he will do when he discovers the screw driver. #
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• Blog Talk: Comment by harishkumar on Learn Oracle – What is Oracle? http://bit.ly/8ZSrvx #
• Blog Talk: Comment by "Jeffrey Kemp" on Stupid Proc Tricks -The Weird and Wonderful Overload http://bit.ly/dp1Qsi #
• Blog Talk: Comment by "Jeffrey Kemp" on Stupid Proc Tricks -The Weird and Wonderful Overload http://bit.ly/dp1Qsi #
• Blog Talk: Comment by Nini on Oracle and XML In Action – A Real World Example http://bit.ly/dlZBXL #
• A dilbert example of "trust, but verify" http://bit.ly/cSD4Sq #
• @pioro Congrats on the acehood!

• Blogged "Stupid Proc Tricks -The Weird and Wonderful Overload" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/39311/3 #
• My 2 year old turned off the refrigerator and unscrewed the light bulb. I fear what he will do when he discovers the screw driver. #
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• Gergen: Mr. President, take command http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/30/gergen.oil.spill/index.html?hpt=C2 #
• Blogged "My PHP Online References" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/39030/3 #
• Deal Breakers: 10 Traits & Practices Ruin Your Promotability & Success! http://bit.ly/8Z7iOW #
• Training workers to leave. Interesting concept. http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/01/smallbusiness/staff_training/index.htm?hpt=T3 #
• Updated the links on my PHP for PL/SQL Developers presentation. http://bit.ly/aRtkY5 #
• Anyone successful getting hprof working in sqldev 2.1.1.64? It works for me in 1.5.5 but no love in 2.1. #
• @oraclenerd Hierarchical Profiler. in reply to oraclenerd #
• @oraclenerd It's easy to use and sqldev will even set it up. Setup is working in 2.1 but it's not displaying my runs. 1.5 works fine.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24: <!–
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• Blogged "PHP for PL/SQL Developers: More Include Files, Inserting Data and Must See Sites" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/38892/3 #
• I've been Tweeting since July 28, 2007 (1031 days). How about you? – http://HowLongOnTwitter.com #
• My life writ dilbertian http://bit.ly/cw6qfo #
• @dtseiler @dtseiler I still double space. I'm oldskool, yo. in reply to dtseiler #
• Interesting webinar coming on June 3, "Urban Myths" about SQL presented by Mike Stonebraker http://bit.ly/9Os9XD  #
• What we need to do about BP's oil spill. http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/25/honore.oil.spill/index.html?hpt=T1 #
• RittmanMead's Stewart Bryson speaking at SOUG tonight. http://soug.acomp.usf.edu/nextmeetingdetailed.php #
• Going to usergroup tonite. Hungry now. Wonder what the soug feedage will be.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-17: <!–
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• Blog Comments: Comment on uCertify Oracle Certification Software Review by LewisC: Just a year late but Congrats o… http://bit.ly/d3E1Mf #
• Blogged "PHP for PL/SQL Developers: Include Files, Connecting to Oracle and Selecting Data" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/38739/3 #
• Updated my PHP for PL/SQL Developers post with links to all the posts so far: http://bit.ly/php_ora #
• RT @orana Suncoast Oracle Users Group, May 27, 2010 http://ff.im/-ktELE The OLTP DBA’s Guide to Delivering a Dimensional Model. #
• @datachick I got my email about voting today too. Guess I'll go get it done.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09: <!–
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• Blogged "PHP for PL/SQL Developers: Finally, some real code" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/38612/3 #
• Blogged "MySQL Track at ODTUG Kaleidoscope" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/38656/3 #
• SAP buys Sybase for 5.8 billion http://bit.ly/chxieC #
• rt @oracletechnet A full Oracle Database App Development stack in a VirtualBox appliance: Can I haz? Yes I can http://bit.ly/dACvjB #
• Blogged "Know Thy Audience – Lessons on Public Presentations" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/38684/3 #
• Blog Comments: Comment on 3 Cloud Operating Systems You Can Use Right Now by ben: G.ho.st has shutdown to pursue o… http://bit.ly/dvl2uD #
• Wow. This sucks.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02: <!–
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• Blogged "PHP for PL/SQL Developers: A First Look" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/38432/3 #
• "PHP for PL/SQL Developers: A First Look" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/73/2/38432/3/twitter #
• Finally tossed the dlink 615. Fast router but the dropped connections were driving me nuts. Don't buy it. #
• Blogged "ProjectManager.com – A Review" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/38443/3 #
• Blog Talk: Comment by Balvant on Oracle Collections: A Definition in Plain English Part 1 http://bit.ly/bA9oX6 #

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• Blogged "PHP for PL/SQL Developers, The Beginning" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/38272/3 #
• Blogged "My ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 Schedule" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/38347/3 #
• dilbert wins again. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-04-29/ #
• hp + plam = me likee. cool os and great consumer hardware. hp web os netbook and/or tablet, anyone? #
• plam = plam. doi. #
• ack. stupid phone is killing me. palm, palm, palm. thank you. #

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• Blogged "PHP for PL/SQL Developers, The Introduction" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/38205/3 #
• Blog Comments: Comment on Designing the Data Mart – Part 2 by Lazalo: Very good article. Thanks! http://bit.ly/dBCxr4 #

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• Blogged "Why projects fail. Reason #113" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/37942/3 #
• Trying out the officalt blackberry twitter client. Soso #
• Twitter for bb makes my red light blink when ANYone I follow tweets. That means my red light never stops. Annoying. #

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• @craigmullins just reads your march dbta column. Good stuff. Agree with osdb move from easy to complex comment. in reply to craigmullins #
• Cloud Comments: Comment on Defining Cloud Computing: Part 6 – IaaS by Basant Singh: Rackspace is also a leading Ia… http://bit.ly/9z9LD8 #
• Cloud Comments: Comment on About by Neha Sharma: Hi,
  I am very impressed with your blog which has some amazing pos… http://bit.ly/9pbAVM #
• Cloud Comments: Comment on A quick overview of PuTTY and SSH for AWS Newbies by Daminda: Hi bro,
  Thank you for thi… http://bit.ly/8Yflzh #
• Michael Stonebraker?s take on NoSQL. Good read.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28: <!–
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• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-21: Got a reply email from a recruiter. Started off with"sorry fo… http://bit.ly/9xkyD6 #
• back from the cruise. Mixed emotions. #
• Muhahahahaha. RT @fmanjoo: Teabonics. Flickr set of misspelled Tea Party signs. This made my morning. http://bit.ly/dy9DR3 #
• This is hilarious – RethinkDB is switching over to Lisp http://bit.ly/9bx2l7 #
• Oracle ace director and java champion teleconference just getting started. Please mute your phones people. #
• @chriscmuir viki is recording it now. in reply to chriscmuir #
• 100ish ace directors, 300ish aces, 110ish java champions. Cool. My first knowledge of java champions.

• Blogged "Give Evil a Break" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/37597/3 #
• Sitting in a sprint planning meeting. Screw pigs and chickens. I wanna be a scrumlord! #
• Coughing. Breathing rough. Chest hurts. What does pneumonia feel like? I don't have fever or nausea. #
• @datachick heh. Xml fixes everything. Like the cloud. Xml cloud = nerdvanna! in reply to datachick #
• ?Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.? ? Denise Austin #
• @fmanjoo I'm going with entropy. in reply to fmanjoo #
• @peglegpug I got the perfect pullup. Works great. Pull ups turned out to be much harder than I remembered.

• Got a reply email from a recruiter. Started off with"sorry for the delay in responding." My message was from 2007. #
• Cool! Watch instantly! RT @Techmeme: Netflix announced for Windows Phone 7 Series (Chris Ziegler/Engadget) http://techme.me/=IVb #
• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14: <!–
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• Blogged "Anti-Standards" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/37481/3 #
• From Dr Dobbs. Hilarious! Larry Ellison on chatroulette talking about cloud computing. http://bit.ly/aO0dhU #
• Dilbert speaking in words even management can understand. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-03-17/ #
• I decided I want to become a certified scrumbastard. Then someone pointed out that it is scrummaster. Well then, nevermind. #
• ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 early bird registration ends Mar 24.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07: <!–
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• My son asked me what I do at work. The best I could come up with was, "I struggle to keep myself amused". #
• @dtseiler I like win7. Runs great. I've had no issues on 3 different comps. I also run vbox. I have 1 home prem and 2 ultimates. in reply to dtseiler #
• Blog Comments: Comment on Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22 by Dakiwid: Ordinary citizens aerosol for your pai… http://bit.ly/cy1BH2 #
• Blogged "March 1-7 is National Procrastination Week" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/37361/3 #
• Decided to try chatroulette. Met a nice guy from nigeria. Works for a bank.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28: <!–
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• Blogged "On Everquest, Emulators and MySQL" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/37207/3 #
• Blogged "Would you like a free pass to ODTUG Kaelidoscope 2010? How about a hotel upgrade?" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/37247/3 #
• Blogged "The NoSQL That Must Not Be Named!" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/37249/3 #
• Wtf. Ice on the car windows again. In march. I live in the freaking tundra. What's next? Wooly mammoths? #
• got an email from AARP. just about crapped myself. turns out it was just spam. I thought I had REALLY overslept. #
• MySQL Comments: My current employer doesn't use Erwin so I can't t…: My current employer doesn't use Erwin so I …

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21: <!–
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• Blog Comments: Comment on Building a PL/SQL Code Parser (using PL/SQL), Part 3 by Ted Zuschlag: 12 months after yo… http://bit.ly/akUDGi #
• Blogged "My ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 Sessions" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/37123/3 #
• I connected Twitter to my Flavors.me page – http://flavors.me/lewisc #flavorsme #

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• Blogged "Wazzup?" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36990/3 #
• Cracked.com: 5 reasons to be scared of apple. http://bit.ly/bbWsv3 #
• Anyone else get Service Temporarily Unavailable a lot on oracle.com's documentation? Seems to be getting worse. #
• Blogged "Would You Leave Your Job?" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/37018/3 #

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• Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints? Who dat? Who dat? #
• In a way, Manning couldn't lose. He played for hs team but his city won anyway. #
• Blog Comments: Comment on JSON In (and out) of Oracle – JSON Data Type by anonymous: XML and JSON don’t convert ba… http://bit.ly/9VgZcQ #
• Cloud Comments: Comment on Using and Managing AWS – Part 4: Choosing a Tool by Andy: Please consider adding CloudB… http://bit.ly/bvhPRW #

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• Blog Comments: Comment on Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07 by over the counter nail fungus treatment: over th… http://bit.ly/criJK5 #
• Blog Talk: Comment by upendra on Oracle Streams Configuration: Change Data Capture http://bit.ly/cnzP3x #
• Blog Talk: Comment by Mkoneru on Learn PL/SQL: Procedures and Functions http://bit.ly/9XRGdV #
• Blog Talk: Comment by Lin Brann on Learn PL/SQL: Declaring Variables, Named vs Anonymous Blocks http://bit.ly/bCEYOa #
• Blogged "Computer Grayskull, aka Computer Lab in a Box" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36664/3 #
• About to start my presentation on fine grained access control.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24: <!–
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• Blogged "Full day *Sunday* training sessions for ApEx, SOA/BPM, Hyperion/Essbase and Web…" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36577/3 #
• Work now blocks facebook, twitter, my blog, and anything with "mail" or "forum" anywhere in the url. Annoying. I love my blackberry. #
• @datachick yeah, kind of silly really. in reply to datachick #
• @jpiwowar Geaux Saints! Nola gonna shut down for that game. If the saints win, nola will shut for the week. in reply to jpiwowar #
• @jkuramot not overshadowed in any conversation I follow. Favre on the ground.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17: <!–
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• ODTUG interviewed me: http://bit.ly/7O89vR #
• Filed under better late than never – just got my newhire laptop bag – only 380 days after I started. Nice bag. #
• RT @TheOnion: In Focus: Nations Liberals Suffering From Outrage Fatigue http://onion.com/7rHrzr #
• Going to exadata seminar today. Google maps gave me waaaaaay wrong directions. Fortunately, I could tell and got good directions. #
• @lonnekedikmans what if you change something? Should it autosave? Lose original or do versioning? How many versions? in reply to lonnekedikmans #
• Agenda for exadata seminar.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10: <!–
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• Blogged "My 2010 New Year's Resolutions" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36362/3 #
• @piontekdd I have a roku, netflix on xbox and an entertainment pc. Still, I'll stream netflix on my wii just cause I can. in reply to piontekdd #
• OMG. Owwwwww. Boiled weiner. RT @SkyNews: Burns Down Below: Star Scalds Privates On Set http://bit.ly/7v0Bmn #
• Blogged "Interesting Network Configuration" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36366/3 #
• RT @craigmullins: Just published a new blog entry about the safety of the mainframe as a career choice at http://bit.ly/82SSpB #
• Blogged "ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 Update" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36410/3 #

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• Blogged "Shut Up Monty" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36210/3 #
• @oraclenerd I thought you were already working? Good luck! in reply to oraclenerd #
• got my copy of sql developer 2.1 (book) by sue harper from packt pub. looks good. expect a review soon! #
• @stenvesterli heh. Yeah. Meant on my blog though. I might have to try the 140 char review though. in reply to stenvesterli #
• Blogged "I want to be a DBA. Where do I start?" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36212/3 #
• Yo Gabba Gabba freaks me out. How about you?

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27: <!–
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• Blogged "2009 : The Oracle Year in Review – Part 2" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36072/3 #
• Just got fios 25/15 + HD Extreme. Verizon showed up with a wireless router, G not N, secured with WEP even though it's capable of WPA2. WTF? #
• Anyone know of any issues with fios with me running my own dlink N router (replacing theirs)? #
• Not bad, better than brighthouse. http://www.speedtest.net/result/667370641.png #

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• Blogged "Oracle Tampa Extreme Performance Seminar – Exadata v2" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36029/3 #
• The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. Eric Hoffer #
• RT: @TheOnion Feds Uncover Secret Santa Ring http://bit.ly/8EMCxI #
• Fill this season with cheer by designating a sober driver before going to holiday parties! http://buzzeddriving.adcouncil.org #buzzeddriving #
• Blog Comments: Comment on Ora_Tweet – Tweet From Oracle, A PL/SQL Twitter API by Caramoan: Twitter in some ways i… http://bit.ly/8u5CZo #
• Blogged "2009 : The Oracle Year in Review – Part 1" http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/36071/3 #
• Tweeting 2 years, 5 months, 5 hours, 9 minutes, 52 seconds (July 27, 2007).

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• Blog Comments: Comment on PL/JSON v0.6.2 Released by APEX Development » APExt JS – Property Grid – Part 2: [...] P… http://bit.ly/5Bq0M1 #
• Doing ApEx again this week but having a hard time getting started. Have a cold too. #
• Blog Comments: Comment on Change in Posting Schedule by braicamar: Hi. My computer worked slowly, too much mistakes… http://bit.ly/50dsJj #
• ApExing again today. Totally in the zone. Still like Forms better but ApEx is rockish. #
• Rt @imjustagoyle @BN9: Florida's unemployment rate rises to 11.5 percent in November, .3 percent higher than in October http://bit.ly/5I3Qr6 #

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