For a long time now, I have eschewed plastic bags at retail stores, and instead (whenever possible) asked for paper. I figure that even if i...

Do you like advertising? When I am asked this question, I usually reflexively answer: "No! I hate advertising." Yet to be honest,...

I am now flying back home to Chicago from snow to snow, actually. The morning I left Istanbul, it had started to snow.... Upon reflection, w...

"I did not major in math, but I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them," Huckabee said at a rally at the University of M...

Read this yesterday online: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of six prescription drugs, with a combina...

New Zealand is a whole bunch of islands, formed from volcanic eruptions. And 30 minutes by ferry ride east of Auckland City is Rangitoto, th...

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...