So TheServerSide.com‘s parent company, TechTarget, has taken some of us folks at Oracle out to the ballgame. Twice. The first time, I mainly went to hang out with Dennis. I figured we would have decent seats, but I had no idea how good they would actually be. They were dugout…
Our first XE banner ad is up on IT Toolbox. You might have to refresh a dozen times for it to appear. But it’s up. I’ll find some way to show the ad on here.
For the past three months–almost from the moment I moved from product marketing to campaigns–I have spent about 50% of my time working on promoting the launch of Oracle Database 10g Express Edition. The production release was available for download from OTN this past Friday, and the news is just…
This new year, I didn’t make any resolutions, but I did set my priorities for the year. 2005 was perhaps the worst year of my life, between my father passing, six months of emotional and psychological abuse from my manager, and a roller-coaster relationship with my closest friend. So I…
I’m not sure how long I will keep this up. Or if I even will beyond this month. But I have thought often of the long littleness of life in the months after my father died. And I thought maybe my children–if I ever have any–would like to hear of…
On my way back to NYC. Is Ellie born yet? I’ll find out when I get home, I guess. I’m sitting next to this American couple, from somewhere in the South, I’ll wager. I can’t believe the inanity of their conversation. I am such a misanthrope.
The drive back from Monteverde was bone jarring. God, that road was awful. All I can say is that I was so unbelievable grateful when I finally hit paved road. I had started grating and grinding my teeth about twenty minutes before out of sheer frustration. [At the airport a…
The cloud forest itself was less photographically interesting to me. Though I was fascinated by the fill-me-ferns and the… shoot… I think it was a kind of bamboo. No. Shoot, I’ve forgotten but it has orange and black fruit the size of cranberries, the orange being unripe, but used to…
John, the proprietor of La Colina Lodge, set me up with a guide named Ricard. “Muy tranquilo” John assured me. John said Ricardo was a descendant of the first Quakers who settled at Monteverde. Ricardo was muy tranquilo. Posiblemente un poquito mas tranquilo que yo prefiere. But he sure could…
I haven’t had a walk home like that in, oh, six, seven years. Not since the West Bank that night I had too much to drink at Nigel’s. It was so black tonight, like nothing I’ve ever experienced. I hated the light, and loved it at the same time. All…
