I landed in Auckland on January 23rd. My first visit to New Zealand, a country of which I have heard so much over the years. Off I went to m...

I am on my last day of a 2.5 week swing through APAC (Asia Pacific). I have been in Auckland, New Zealand for the last five days and will wr...

2007 was a busy year for me. Quest Software released Quest Code Tester for Oracle, a tool that will (according to me, anyway) revolutionize ...

President Bush claims to want to save us from a recession. He wants more tax cuts that might on average put a few hundred dollars into the p...

I arrived in Singapore at 12:30 AM "today" (whatever that really means; I am not sure right now, having passed the international...

I like to eat. And I am very fortunate in that I have been able to eat large quantities of food and not gain weight (though as I get older, ...

I watched a lot of movies over the holidays. I was actually home for four straight weeks, sandwiched between out of country trips (I am now ...

Most electronic voting takes place on machines supplied by Diebold, which is run by people who contribute or have contributed heavily to the...

I resolve that in 2008 I will post more frequently and more concise pearls of wisdom on my blog. I tend to feel like I shouldn't write a...

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...