Crazy year...but that seems to be the norm. Is crazy my normal? I wouldn't be suprised. Numbers 289 - Number of posts this year. 37 - ...

A tad dramatic? Yes. Rough week "watching" everyone at OpenWorld. I gave it the old college try, but I didn't have the heart...

Today was the big keynote from Mr. Larry Ellison himself. Ian Abramson, President of the IOUG, calls it LarryDay . Larry was joined by the ...

The sheer volume of information coming out of OpenWorld is astounding. There are thousands of tweets and maybe close to 100 blogs per day. ...

I'm just going to list all of the "Day 1" articles I have found so far...there seem to be quite a few, more than I remember la...

Alex Gorbachev of Pythian fame has posted a couple of videos already; one with Justin Kestelyn of Oracle Technology Network (check out the ...

Today is the official start of Oracle OpenWorld. Strangely, I could have been there. At midnight on Thusday (Friday morning actually), I r...

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Starts in a little more than 2 days...sucks I won't be there, but what can you do? The OOW traffic has increased significantly over the ...

Eleven days out now...I'm still a bit bummed that I won't get to attend. I have been...well, I can't help, but follow along. Wha...

I had an idea today (yeah, I know, scary). What if I got someone to take ORACLENERD T-Shirts to Oracle OpenWorld and sold them there, on sit...

News Of course the big news of the week is the latest release of the Oracle database, 11gR2. Everyone and their mother wrote about it, inc...

To say it has been a crazy week or so would be a gross understatement. Last week, I bowed out from the race to attend Oracle OpenWorld. Two...

Thanks to Justin , Jake , Billy ( twice ) and everyone else who has taken up "my" cause. If you don't know what the cause is,...

Oracle OpenWorld Earlier this week I threw in the towel in my attempt to go to OpenWorld. I applied for and received the Oracle blogger pa...

I don't really know what to say...other than Thank You ! It started here: Then here: And then it continued... How effin ' awesome is...

Sadly, I will not be able to attend Oracle OpenWorld this year. Among the various excuses I could come up with: 1. Lack of vacation time. ...

Just wanted to list a couple of ways to get free passes to Oracle OpenWorld. I received mine last week through the Blogger program. That...

I am! Who says Twitter is useless? You can find more details about Oracle Open World here . Truthfully, I didn't get this one through ...

Finally...I'm actually tired of writing. Thank goodness it's over. First off I would like to thank the OAUG staff for providing me ...