The prototype review for the Oracle SOA implementation went very well yesterday. Lots of great technical stuff!

As an added bonus, there was a classic moment that only myself and a couple of other people in the conference room picked up on. You have to know a couple of things about the people in the room:

• Half are too young to remember much about the Clinton era
• One fourth are foreign born and probably didn’t get caught up in all the political news of that time in the U.S.
• Relations from a technical database standpoint refer to how things hook up. Come to think of it I guess that’s what it means in real life too!
• I am easily amused especially when I’m tired

If you’re old enough to remember the Bill Clinton years and you had any political or current event news awareness at all then this headline regarding what the meaning of “is” is probably caught your attention. Long story if you don’t know it so just Google it.

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