I can pinpoint the exact moment the UK went to the dogs and our society began to crumble. It wasn't a new PM, a specific law came in, or even a sporting tragedy. It was in 1998 when Opal Fruits become Starburst! 38 years of UK childhood thrown under the wheels of international commercialism!

Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s: www.rigb.org/christmas-le... I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!

Damn but it was loud at the Stadium of Light yesterday #Safc #haway

I’m happy if slightly disappointed with a point at Anfield. Which is quite a ridiculous thing for me to say. HAWAY! #safc #lfc

The count down for #UKOUGDiscover2025 in Birmingham has begun. 📅 30 November – 2 December 2025 Register Here: ukoug.org/page/UKOUGDi... @oracleace.bsky.social #ACED #UKOUG #purestorage

Just spotted this front door on a road near where I live 😊.

My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! TALBI!!!!!!!! FUCKING GET IT UP YA!!!!!!! #SAFC

This is how a latch contention looks in real life. The @ora600pl.bsky.social way at #HrOUG2025

Fundamentals of Oracle security (and some drinks) with @chandlerdba.bsky.social at #HrOUG2025

Getting dizzy at #HrOUG

Let's get off that f*** #Oracle #Exadata with @chandlerdba.bsky.social and #whiskey at #hroug25 @oracleace.bsky.social

I'll be speaking at #UKOUGDiscover2025 ukoug.org/page/UKOUGDi... about how transactions in Oracle really work. The agenda is up and online, and most excellent sessionize.com/api/v2/kspp9... Hope I'll see you in Birmingham on 30th November! #UKOUG25

I'm on the agenda for the #ukoug conference 2025. 9:00 a.m. on Monday morning (I tell myself that that's to encourage people to be on-site early enough to attend the opening keynote afterwards) Abstract at: jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/public-appea...

I'll be speaking at #UKOUGDiscover2025 ukoug.org/page/UKOUGDi... about how transactions in Oracle really work. The agenda is up and online, and most excellent sessionize.com/api/v2/kspp9... Hope I'll see you in Birmingham on 30th November! #UKOUG25

Only a couple of weeks to go until the #HrOUG2025 conference in Rovinj, Croatia. I am so looking forward to celebrating the 30th anniversary of this wonderful conference; full of fun and full of learning in an amazing location.

Looking forward to be at #HrOUG2025 🤩 A great conference, with excellent venue, content, speakers and attendees! See all the details here: 2025.hroug.hr/eng

Only a couple of weeks to go until the #HrOUG2025 conference in Rovinj, Croatia. I am so looking forward to celebrating the 30th anniversary of this wonderful conference; full of fun and full of learning in an amazing location.

Blog post for September 2025 SQL Developer isn't entirely CBO-friendly. jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/s...

Just saw Mario turned 40 this week and so, once again, I present to you: the first level of Super Mario but all the sound effects are farts.

Reform is essentially a really drunk Tory party.

Another Tory has joined Reform you say? Why it would almost appear as of Reform were not an insurgent force of outsiders but … dare I say… the same old shit in a different package… by which I mean unutterable Tory wankers.

The two-button binary keyboard. The two keys are 0 and 1, and every 7 presses you get a character.

For the past 6 months I've been anonymously mailing collage cards i made to a café/art space in Nebraska. They're in a town with 40 people. I don't know them and I've never been there. I put a code on the back of the cards. If you figure it out it's my email address. They finally emailed me today!

On stage with an absolute Oracle legend @chandlerdba.bsky.social 😇 #POUG2025

Who is this mysterious man? Could it be @chandlerdba.bsky.social ? Strange happenings at #POUG2025 @sym42.bsky.social

@chandlerdba.bsky.social closes the official track of day 1 #POUG2025

Sabrage with an axe. Yep, @pougorg.bsky.social

Join the Oracle ACEs at POUG 2025 this week in Poznań. Knowledge, lectures, discussion and networking for two full days! Join them now ♠️ 👉 poug.org/en/edycja/po... #OracleACE @edelweissk.bsky.social @ora600pl.bsky.social @julianfrey.ch @danischnider.bsky.social @chandlerdba.bsky.social

Can you spot when Sunderland scored the first goal of the afternoon against West Ham? #safc #haway

Why has everyone picked their HA failover time to be 30s? RAC crashes after 30s, multipathd default is 30s, now it turns out LACP is also 30s by default.

The fallacy of not gathering stats to keep execution plans from changing came up again, so I blogged about it blogs.oracle.com/optimizer/po...

📚 This week's reading list is out, packed with #announcements and #releases galore. Definitely worth a look! 🔖 Missed some reading lists? Find them all at https://www.geraldonit.com/category/reading-list/

New Post - change in behaviour with Oracle Statistics when truncating partitions. #oracle #performance #statistics #truncate chandlerdba.com/2025/08/08/o...

The perfect host.

Amazing work www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSUQ...

At #POUG2025, @chandlerdba.bsky.social will walk (or race) us through the trickiest memory issues – from leaks to limits, from WTFs to workarounds. Brace yourself. It’s gonna get intense and hilariously relatable. poug2025.konfeo.com

That was fabulous. Everything test cricket should be. What a mad final wicket too. Really felt for Siraj, but impressed by Stokes reaction to him. T20 just doesn’t have that sort of tension ALL afternoon. I feel as exhausted as the captain.

Welcome to Sunderland AFC, Noah Sadiki! ❤️🇨🇩

Welcome to Sunderland AFC, Habib Diarra! ❤️🇸🇳

🎉 The 2025/2026 Oracle ACE Program members have just been announced! Join us in celebrating the incredible contributors, experts, and community leaders making a difference in the Oracle world. Check out the full list and let’s congratulate the new ACEs! 👉 blogs.oracle.com/ace/post/int... #OracleACE

You should join @krisrice.io and I for an hour of show and tell in a few weeks. The MCP support has the potential to really change how you work with our Database. go.oracle.com/LP=148941?el...

Couple of additions to the blog post with a bit more insight into what is taking place, and some insight and guesswork into how the timeout works.

Have a new Oracle blog post about an unexpected problem and a change to the defaults after applying a patch (which is standard functionality in later releases) #oracle #oracle19C #oracle23ai chandlerdba.com/2025/06/11/o...

Is it a better way to end a conference than a race? Grand Prix @monikalewandowska.bsky.social version at #MakeIT2025 Who Will Win the Race? @oracleace.bsky.social @sym42.bsky.social

Last session at #MakeIT2025: Performance Grand Prix by @monikalewandowska.bsky.social - who will win the race?

The Oracle Ace Program @oracleace.bsky.social in Slovenia #makeit2025

AI database stuff with Google’s Kieran Taylor in Slovenia #makeit2025

Oracle Automation with @julianfrey.ch in Slovenia #makeit2025