Paintballing.....again.....

The cold harsh reality of the alarm clock sounded at 0730 and I forced myself into the shower. Once resembling a some what human entity I threw myself into the car and proceeded over to Fleet to pick up Neil. Lucky for me I could relax as he decided to…

Corfu

Yay, just returned from Corfu after spending a week there on holiday with Phoebe. We stayed in Paleokastrista which is in the north-west side of Corfu in a nice hotel over looking the bay. The weather was warm although we did suffer from a day and a half of rain…

Sarah Mae Lawerence

Ooo, a new family member Sarah Mae Lawrence popped out today, and a shame that I was on holiday at the time. 🙁 Welcome to the family little one. 🙂…

Oracle redo logs and dd

I recently had a case with a customer concerned over the time taken to dd an Oracle redo log file even though Oracle had been shutdown. Finding this strange I thought I’d use TNF probes to see what was happening. #!/bin/sh -x # Script to collect TNF data whilst…

The Oxford adventure.....

Ah, Oxford where some of the clever people go to college and enjoy the year long tradition of healthy competition on boats with Cambridge. However that wasn’t the idea, as this weekend Pheebs and I were going to meet some of her Univercity friends for a healthy dose of…