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The office sprung for a bunch of us to attend Jonathan Lewis’s “Writing Optimal SQL” seminar, put on by the nice folks at NEOOUG (that’d be the Northeast Ohio Oracle Users Group, for those playing acronym bingo at home), so I had a nice and brain-meltingly interesting Friday away from the office. Lewis really […]

After work last night, Liz and I popped over to Mitchell’s Fish Market to join in the farewell party for a friend of ours (Michelle, with whom we recently lunched while visiting New Jersey) who’s been a regular in our little wine group. Never in a million years would I have expected the collected […]

Received this via email this morning…
Dear Friend of Case:
Our records indicate that you hold a Case Network ID from a past association with Case Western Reserve University. Your association might have been as a student, staff, or faculty member.
In recent years, along with many other educational institutions, Case has experienced a proliferation of network IDs. […]

Welcome back, sports fans! Having slept for a few hours and enjoyed a tasty dinner, I’ve tucked the wife into bed and returned to the office to run some programs through the night, to be followed by a day of monitoring the health of the server farm. I hope to be able to […]

Welcome to oogby, a friend and colleague of mine from CWRU days. How’s it going, Brian?

Mood:happy
Music:John Williams - “The Clash of Lightsabers”

Mad props to old-skool CWRU studs mokatz, for turning me on to livejournal, and sam16, for the invite code (preciousssssss…). Shout-outs to gieves too. (Hi!)
So now I have a nifty-swifty journal thing, and no time to do anything with it (packing tonight, in meetings all day tomorrow, out of town all weekend). What […]