Monthly Archives: August 2009

The Ceiling Clothes Dryer Experience

Posted on August 31, 2009 by andy

Well what better to do on a bank holiday Monday after a working weekend in the office…..yes that’s right I fitted a Pulley Maid Classic Clothes Airer to the upstairs hall ceiling to make use of the dead space up … Continue reading →

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Phoebe and the birthday cake

Posted on August 18, 2009 by andy

It’s Phoebe’s birthday today and thus it was amusing birthday cake time. I put an order in last week for my friend Karen to design a birthday cake with a rough idea of having a monkey and jungle on the … Continue reading →

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The Twelfth Night at The Vyne

Posted on August 15, 2009 by andy

So this was a new experience for both Pheebs and I with a visit to The Vyne to watch an open air production of Twelfth Night by The Lord Chamberlain’s Men. The tickets were actually given to us as an … Continue reading →

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Multiple Oracle instances performance issue

Posted on August 11, 2009 by hippy

Finally closed a VOS case that’s been open for over a year which was related to high system consumption caused by running multiple Oracle RDBMS’s on a single system. The observation was 80/90% system cpu consumption from mpstat 1 and … Continue reading →

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A Day at the Hawk Conservancy

Posted on August 8, 2009 by andy

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 … Continue reading →

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