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  1. An entry on how to write a free-form SQL query against Oracle from Excel 2007 got a comment from Microsoft ... http://is.gd/59CrO
  2. Window 7, not really 7. No surprise, it's actually Windows 6.1. Too cute to imagine. You can't find it anymore easily. General tab is gone.
  3. The best thing about the new "A Christmas Carol" was seeing scrooge thrown threw the sewer ... it was worth seeing at the $1 theater.
  4. Windows 7 was post Thanksgiving joy (not really) ... just posted notes to set a static IP address on it ... http://is.gd/54r02
  5. Finally, upgraded to VMWare Fusion 3 ...
  6. Caught a great little piece about how the Internet is unraveling traditional business models. http://is.gd/4TwVg
  7. As much as I've worked with Excel, I recently discovered that comparison are identity comparisons, as discussed here: http://is.gd/4TaHn
  8. I wanted to let you know that I finally started a family history blog. You can find it here: http://michael.mclaughlin.me/
  9. Thanks to @michaeltorbert for letting me know about AppleBee's free meal to Veterans and active duty personnel, I went and it was nice.
  10. I heard through an AIM message that the Oracle ACE Directory server is down. I reposted the directory image on my blog - http://is.gd/4ROhv
  11. I'm was nominated and approved as an Oracle ACE, and now I'm in the database too. :-) http://is.gd/4RuGJ
  12. @ghrd Nice article on the Oracle 11g HTTP Server http://bit.ly/OQLUh
  13. A hobby of mine is genealogy. I recently found a wonderful FREE site for French research: http://www.geneanet.org/
  14. Continuously vigilant against spam on my blog, I've found a new trend. They include a rel="nofollow" to mislead a quick review for spam. ;)
  15. I put instructions together for somebody who needed to convert a DVD to ISO on their Mac and install it on a Netbook - http://is.gd/2RnB9
  16. I posted how to leverage the CARDINALITY function in an Oracle database to count the rows in a nested table. It's here http://is.gd/2QuXZ
  17. Registered for Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today. Perhaps I'll see some of you in the OTN Lounge between sessions.
  18. Had to reboot over my Belkin KVM and locked my VMs, wrote a post for unlocking them ... http://is.gd/1MIOz
  19. Wow, the phone service in China is pricey. I just signed my son's iPhone up for the month he'll be there - $5.99 and $1.99/minute. Skype!
  20. Just finished a custom contact page for my stand alone Word Press, you can find the tricks here http://is.gd/1DOHk