Tomorrow I return to Chicago and Veva and Eli. I am so happy. It is my last trip of the year. I am getting REALLY tired of being on airplane...

I write this from Slovenia; it is December 2 and for the next two days I will be training a group of PL/SQL developers in Ljubljana for Orac...

(finally getting around to posting this!) I am flying back from San Francisco; it is Wednesday evening, November 13. I made a relatively ear...

Sorry about the lateness of this posting, but if you are interested in attending my presentations next week at Oracle Open World, here's...

Zeugma Now, that is a fine word, except it sounds like a made-up word. I would have thought, in fact, that it was , but one of the joys of p...

Written on Saturday, October 27: Here I am in seat 31C of an old Air India 747, making my way north to Paris and from there to Chicago. In s...

[Note: now I am home, after flying for over 17 hours yesterday. Ugh. So nice to sleep in my own bed and hug my wife...the following was writ...

Reading through the Herald Tribune (NY Times' international daily - I always look for it when in Europe because it has a daily chess pu...

Hello there from Chennai, India! I am halfway through my first ever visit to India, and I am simultaneously exhausted and exhilarated by the...

Veva and I have been playing Scrabble lots lately.... A few weeks ago I was delighted to put down this word VOICING Nothing terribly special...

I find the charge that the US media is "liberal" to be especially amusing, because it is one of those claims that has no resonance...

Just back from the third Oracle PL/SQL Programming conference: OPP2007-East . Close to 200 developers and their close friends in Quest So...

I went down to Puerto Rico and "worked the land." My wife and I built an enclosure for a vegetable garden. The enclosure was neces...

I am now posting most of my PL/SQL-specific content over at my ToadWorld blog. In fact, Quest Software has now put together a really nice o...

I am just back from a two week "holiday" in Puerto Rico (in quotes, because I spent much of that time working very hard - but manu...

So in November 2006, a sizeable number of the American middle class finally got disgusted with the Bush Administration and his lackeys in th...

As I hope many readers of my blog know, I have gotten rather obsessed with helping PL/SQL developers test their programs more effectively. B...

As I expected, State Farm has declared the car a total loss. The estimate for repairing the car came to over to $8000. The pleasant State Fa...

Sigh....Eli and I went to NY this weekend to celebrate my mom's 75th birthday, plus Sally's 4th birthday, plus Laurie's birthday...

It is summertime, right? I hate it when I am so busy that I barely notice summer in Chicago. Aw, that's an overstatement. I've been ...