Welcome to Rants & Raves my blog/website for anything that grinds my gears, and, other things that I like. You might also find some useful stuff here on the matters of Arduinos, writing code, and some old stuff about Oracle Databases—from when I worked with them.
By the way, this blog has been around in one format or another since 2009. Some of the much older rants and raves are no longer here. I’ve trimmed out a right lot of rubbish (and spam too!)
Have fun.
Posts
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Debouncing Arduino Switches Without any Additional Components
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I have a new blog!
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New Book - Arduino Assembly Language
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Configuring the Arduino IDE to Allow AVR Debugging
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I have another New Book!
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Debugging AVR Code with Simulavr
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AVR-GCC Register Usage
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Configuring Linux Mint to use my UHD Laptop Display
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Messing About with Samba Shares on my Volumio Server
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Streaming Music from my Volumio Server
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Enabling SSH on a Raspberry Pi 3 from the Commandline
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Using Avr Assembly With Interrupts
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Fixing Lyx for HiDPI Monitor
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Migrating from Wordpress
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Backing Up My Books
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Arduino Internal Temperature Measuring
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Build 64bit OCILIB Libraries for CodeBlocks
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ATMega328P 8MHz on a Breadboard
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Oracle Deadlock Analysis
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Useful AIX Unix Commands
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ENQ: TS - Contention
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RMAN-20033: control file SEQUENCE# too low
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Generate Entity Relationship Diagrams from a SQL Script
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Snorkelling in the Oracle Listener Logs.
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IMPDP Hangs, or Appears to Hang - But Has it?
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Arduino Nano - Cannot Upload Sketches after Board Upgrade to 1.6.21
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Using FUSE to Mount an SSH Folder Locally
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FLAC to MP3 as Easy as Pie!
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Compiling Sqlite3 Shell with Embarcadero/Borland C.
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Trace Collier and TraceAdjust
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Trace Collier Updated Again
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Trace Collier Utility - Updated
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Interesting Foible with Oracle Dates
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Oraenv for Windows - Updated
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Oraenv for Windows
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Which Extra Cost Oracle Options is my Windows Server Running?
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Dropping Temporary Tables (With Bonus, Broken Check Constraints!)
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RMAN Connection Troubles, RMAN-03010 & RMAN-10038
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How to Start an Oracle Database When You Are Not in the DBA Group
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Tnsnames.ora, IFILE and Network Drives on Windows
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Printing, Completing & Scanning PDF Documents
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Does Your Raspberry Pi 3 Lose WiFi Connections After a While?
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Turn Off Task Bar Thumbnail Previews on Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3 through 20.1
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Trace Collier - An Oracle Utility to Mine 10046 Trace Files
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Raspberry Pi, PiZero, Raspbian Jessie, Networking and WiFi Setup
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Archivelog Deletion Policy Changes Don't Always Take Immediate Effect.
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UTL_FILE Operation fails with ORA-29283
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HP Printer Ink---WTF?
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Getting Arduino Working from a Windows 7 VirtualBox Guest
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HPLIP Stops Working After Linux Mint 17.2 Upgrade
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Cheerio and RIP Mum
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A Useful Perl Tutorial
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Add and Drop Disks From ASM in a Single Command
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How to Fix a Broken ASM SPFILE, held within ASM
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Asmcmd or ASM Instance Backups or Queries Hang
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Convert a Tnsnames.ora File to a Toad Session Import File
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Tnsnames Checker Utility
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Shell Variable Indirection in a Database Build Script
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Beware of the Silent Database Killer!
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RMAN Error ORA-15028: Archived Log Not Dropped.
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Oracle RAC - Flashback Database
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Tnsnames.ora Parser
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A Couple of Useful Linux & HP-UX Tricks
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Linux Mint (Cinnamon) Not Showing Programs on Task Bar.
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Thunderbird - Message Filters stop Working on Email Download - But Work Ok Manually.
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Impdp Hangs Importing Materialized Views
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VirtualBox - Sending Special Key Combinations to the Guest OS.
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Interesting Data Guard Problem
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Arduino Christmas Light
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Making Christmas Cards - The Old Way!
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So, How Do You Change a User's Password
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Introduction to Oracle Datapump - Part 1
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Oracle RMAN for Beginners – Part 10
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Oracle RMAN for Beginners – Part 9
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Oracle Proxy Users - What Are They Used For?
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Spam, Spam, Spam!
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Beginner's Guide to Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi - Part 2
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NOOBS For Raspberry Pi
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Beginner's Guide to Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi
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Astell & Kern - AK100 Review
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Spatial Indexes and Oracle Errors. How to fix.
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Need to Compile a 32 bit Application on a 64 bit Linux System?
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This Listener Problem is Driving Me Mad!
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ORA-03262 While Dropping Empty Datafile
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Statspack Snapshot Fails ORA-01400 Cannot Insert NULL ...
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My Step-Father's Cremation
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Swap Two Values, in SQL, Without Using a Temporary Variable
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Ever deleted a Data File From a Running Database?
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Firefox Running Extremely Slowly?
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TNS-01189: The listener could not authenticate the user
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Setting Oracle Environment in Scripts
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Linux Command to Retrieve Hardware Serial Numbers etc
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Bee Tragedy
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Transportable Tablespace Migrations with Expdp/ImpdpXXXXX
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Rsync - To Slash or Not To Slash?
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Cannot Send Emails, or Read Web Servers From Oracle 11g
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ORA$AT_SA_SPC_SY Jobs failing?
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Installing Oracle Java 7 on Linux Mint 13
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RMAN Active Database Clone - Different Servers, Same Structure
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It's Not a PiBow, It's a Raspberry PiBoard!
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Where Does OraInventory Live? Can I Move it?
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Using "chopt" to Enable and Disable Oracle Options
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Oracle's Deferred Segment Allocation Breaks Transportable Tablespace Imports.
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How To Resize a VirtualBox Hard Drive
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Backup & Check a Raspberry Pi SD Card
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Raspberry Pi Sound
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Oracle Index Clustering Factor Explained
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Give Your Raspberry Pi Turbo Mode
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The Dangers of Cheap USB Hubs
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Using Oracle 11g Adrci for Incident Reporting
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Installing Oracle Multimedia on 11g
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Rename an Oracle 10g or 11g Database - Part 2
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Beware of Listener Port 1521 and Dynamic Registration
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How to Screw Up DB Upgrade Assistant
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Oracle RMAN for Beginners - Part 8
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Installing Locator or Spatial on 11g
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Oracle Text aka CONTEXT - Installing on 11g
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I'm Quite Pleased With This Photo
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Weird Error Dialogue when Installing Oracle 11.2.0.3 Client?
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Oracle 9i, HP-UX and ORA-12505 Drives Me Mad!
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Scotsmen & the Weather.
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Sudo on SLES Asking for Root Password?
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Oracle RMAN for Beginners – Part 7
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Rename an Oracle 10g or 11g Database
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Oracle RMAN for Beginners – Part 6
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Oracle RMAN for Beginners – Part 5
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Clone Oracle Home Easily
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Oracle RMAN for Beginners – Part 4
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Oracle RMAN for Beginners – Part 3
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Oracle RMAN for Beginners - Part 2
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Oracle RMAN for Beginners - Part 1
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Docbook - Creating Indexes
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Raspberry Pi Goes Into Manufacturing - Yippee!
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Why Do I Have To Suffer Your Children?
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Slightly Weird Oracle Stuff
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The Green Thing
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Deprecated Parameter Warning on Database Startup
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Does Your Volume Control Freeze on KDE?
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Indoor Beekeeping? It Won't Catch on!
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Removing "Rogue" Expensive Oracle Options After Upgrading to 10.2.0.x.
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Can We Have Oracle 10g and 11g on the Same Server?
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Norm's Law of Computing
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A Day in London with Cary Millsap
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2011 Honey Harvest - Let it Begin!
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Jonathan Lewis Has A New Book Coming Soon ....
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This Page Intentionally Left Blank ...
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Wondering Why The Oracle Databases Won't Start After A SLES Reboot?
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How To Extract Details From /etc/oratab on Linux
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Does Your Windows Oracle Database Stay Down After A Server Reboot?
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Does Your Hard Disc Light Stay On For Ages After Booting Linux?
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Bees Coming Out Of Our Ears!
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Do We Have A New Queen, Or What?
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Bee Tragedy!
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Japanese Tragedy
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Domino is gone
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The Frogs Are Back!
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The Bees are alive!
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Signs Of Life?
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What Do We Need, Banks or Hospitals?
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Executing Packaged Code Over a Database Link
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Very Sticky Sunday!
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The Final Harvest Is In...
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I'm Seriously Offended ...
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The Pope Is Coming - Lock Up Your Kids!
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Oracle Change The Patching Process From 11.2.0.2
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Bee Latest.
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It's Harvest Time!
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To Flashback, Or Not To Flashback. Are You Sure About That?
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How To Gather Table Stats Effectively
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The AA Insurance Company Foible.
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The First Honey Crop
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We Have A New Queen Coming!
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Just How Busy Can a Bee Get?
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We Have A Queen---And She's Red!
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Ted Hooper - RIP.
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The Election Is Coming!
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Fly Monarch? I Don't Think So!
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Shag Fest!
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The Bees are Flying Again!
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I Was Peed On By A Frog This Morning!
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How Much Does it Cost to Keep Politicians Honest?
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My Oracle Scripting Standards
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Dead Bees :-(
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The bees are clustering for winter
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Get a bloody life!
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We Have Bees!
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The Bees Are Coming!
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Oracle deadlocks - what happens?
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Have Change Control become the new Health & Safety?
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God or Santa?
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PL/SQL expression evaluator
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If I committed a crime, would the government pay for me?
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I might as well jump on the bandwagon
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Cyclists have a new weapon!
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What's wrong with this file system?
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A different way to spend a Saturday ...
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Why is it that the people with the worst taste in music, play it loudest?
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I hate those damned Koi Carp!
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Political correctness my arse!
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God and the Italian earthquake
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The frogs are gone ...
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Live badger spotted in Yorkshire!
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The frogs are spawning again
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Oracle diagnostic events
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Another cycling rant!
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The frogs are coming!!!
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It must be efficient, I'm using bind variables!
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ROWIDs are fun
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Lazy developer syndrome
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So transport is killing the planet is it?
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A cycling rant!
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Hello world!
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