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I, for one, can’t stand these IVR machines that require me to press millions of menu buttons before I can speak to a human being, so I was really pleased to find this site called Get Human today. Enjoy.

Nothing technical here…just a quick advert. Some friends of mine have started a new website Called YouGoDo. Billed as “The World’s Playground”, offering users a quick and simple answer to questions like: I’m off to [location], what can I do there?I want to do [activity], where can I do it?I want to do [activity] in [...]

Thanks to Doug, I’ve been “tagged” – he’d obviously noticed I’d been sleeping, blog-wise, for some time and decided that I should come out of hibernation! The idea behind the tagging being to “learn more about the people you interact with using New Web”. So, here are eight pieces of trivia about myself: 1. I [...]

My wife and I were happy to receive a call from Respect For Animals the other day, to inform us that our names would appear on a two page advert in the August issue of the BBC Wildlife magazine, in support of the campaign to stop the seal cull in Canada. I’d never read the [...]

I don’t normally post much in the way of non Oracle stuff but it saddened me to hear on the news on the way into work this morning that Aussie here Steve Irwin died in a marine accident involving a stingray yesterday. I’ve loved watching the Crocodile Hunter show he produces and my wife and I [...]

It’s been fun while it lasted! I’m giving up the blogging for now…my personal family life gets busier by the day and I want to focus on my wife and son, Jude now. I’ll still be presenting at the end of April at the Northern Server Technology Day but that will also be my last [...]

Well, it’s nearly christmas day here in the UK…the pressies are all under the tree, the food and drink is all bought and planned and I’m quite “merry” myself already! I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – that’s my last words for 2005! Cheers!Jeff