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Merry Christmas !! (Love Is Lost) December 23, 2013

Posted by Richard Foote in Christmas, Kaleidoscope, Richard's Musings.
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It’s been a pretty good year all round really.

I had the most perfect holiday in Hawaii, the mighty Crystal Palace won promotion to the English Premier League, we’ve finally won back The Ashes from England and David Bowie released the most brilliant “The Next Day” album right out of the blue. Oh and the Oracle 12c Database was finally released as well 🙂

Next year promises to be just as exciting with the eagerly anticipated Oracle Database “In-Memory” Option due to be released sometime in 2014. I’m sure to have quite a bit to talk about on that subject when it finally gets released, considering the impact on database indexing strategies it will have 🙂

After a relatively quiet year on the conference front, I’m planning to get out a little more next year. As an example, I’m really looking forward in June to presenting at the excellent ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2014 conference in beautiful Seattle. I have a couple of papers accepted so I hope to catch up with many of you there, a city I loved when I visited previously. More details to come.

Let me take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and the very best of New Years. Stay safe and stay happy.

As a treat this year, a fantastic digital art video of one of the tracks from “The Next Day”, a re-mixed version of “Love Is Lost” by James Murphy.

Enjoy !!