A Day at the Hawk Conservancy

So Pheebs and I took a day out down the road to Andover at The Hawk Conservancy tto visit some feathered friends. When we arrived we managed to grab a little bite to eat at the BBQ and then started wandering around the various enclosures viewing the birds. There were…

A Latin Dance experience at Wisley

Pheebs and I enjoyed an entertaining evening of Salsa at a Latin dance event at Wisley run by the folks at Mundo Latino UK. I must say that it’s been a long while since I first attempted to learn Salsa and it showed for a little while! 🙂 Meanwhile Pheebs…

Upgrading Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris

Ran into a problem trying to upgrade my Oracle instance from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4: “Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2009-07-14_10-28-22AM. Please wait …oracle@dbserver:/u04/database$ Exception in thread “main” java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2009-07-14_10-28-22AM/jre/1.4.2/…

Andy Keen's Stag Do

Just come back from a fun packed day/evening out for Andy’s stag do orgainised very well by KKev. We all met up via various forms of transport at a pub near Surrey Paintball for lunch before embarking on an afternoon of quad biking which was exellent fun. The…

Older but with a new guitar

Yep, another year old and another year wiser? Probably not….but still turning 36 gave me an excuse to buy another Ibanez. The new guitar is an 2003 Ibanez S1625TKS which I had to pick up in Kilburn, London before heading back to the city office to work for the…