Here’s me adding the finishing touches to my artwork

It was great meeting up with my poperdoodletastic friend Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer last night on Gone Fishing on BBC they are such lovely people.

Do they share a cigarette afterwards?

My Halloween costume this year is a data model with no referential integrity ... Scary 🤣

Oxford Family Court heard the woman had “actively encouraged” her son to tell school staff he had been inappropriately touched in what she said his father called a “special little game”. #ParentalAlienation bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

AI is helping me to make the concepts of therapeutic parenting for alienated children into visual aids so that parents in the rejected position can understand, heal and help their children to recover from harm.

As Dr Stephen Miller has described, mental health clinicians, solicitors, and judges are prone to make faulty attribution decisions in cases of false allegations and parental alienation. #ParentalAlienation youtube.com/watch?v=5fgRJh…

The Time Machine, Brave New World, 1984: these weren’t the first dystopian novels. There's an interesting history of Victorian and Edwardian literature looking at the impact of modernity on humans and finding it worrying. Today in pulp I look at some early dystopian books…

After an 18 month battle to protect my child I'm out of court and looking for work. It has been hell and I don't know if I'm going to recover, but I have to do everything I can, as a father. Any advice or work leads appreciated because I'm broken. linkedin.com/posts/iabond_i…

"It's the cheapest and best meal you'll buy anywhere at the price". In 1963, Tarry's chip shop in Edinburgh came up with a game-changing business idea - hot food delivered fresh to your door. It'll never catch on.

Fresh video! LONGs are old school and you get a lot of benefits by converting them to CLOBs. The conversion is a simple one-line command, but if you don't do it correctly you could be in for a nasty performance shock. youtu.be/dieH_emE82A

Happy #Easter here's an #Oracle #plsql function to return the date of Easter for any year. bondpollard.co.uk/blog8.php

The Partridges have been unleashed. AHAAAAA #totp

I encourage every person developing apps on a database to read this thread. Why? Because it goes on..and on...and on...and on... and gets more and more complicated with every additional post. And why? Because you chose a pattern that 99% of the time was not required for your

Back in the 90s I did some IT work for the #JesusArmy they tried to recruit my more vulnerable colleagues.

As typos go, this one is hilarious 🤣

38 years ago. It's incredible to think how far computer technology has advanced in that time. This is me seated at my terminal about 2 years into my career as a programmer, starting with the C language.

Fresh video! Why are there so many different data types for numeric data in the database? Are there any issues with choosing one over the other? Which should you choose? youtu.be/2qfi1gtVTQA

Latest blog: How to install #Oracle #APEX full dev environment on Windows, with Oracle REST Data Services #ORDS deployed on Apache #Tomcat. bondpollard.co.uk/blog9.php