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My blogs
| Industry | Consulting |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Software Architect |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I'm a freelance Oracle practitioner, specializing in database design and development. I studied history at university but didn't want to stay in academia. After my finals I read "Neuromancer" by William Gibson and decided to try computing. Those were the days when a history graduate with no relevant experience could get a job in IT. Luckily, I had an aptitude. Since 1992 I have worked on Oracle database systems. Over that time I have worked as a data modeller, designer, developer and DBA. I have also undertaken assignments as a business analyst and a technical architect. If pushed, I would have to say I'm happiest writing PL/SQL programs. I am least happy when attempting to marry a normalised data model to the needs of an ORM tool. I was made an Oracle ACE programme in 2003. In the same year I won the Oracle Magazine OTN Contributor of the Year award. I hit 100k rep on StackOverflow in 2017. I transcended to Oracle ACE Alumni status in 2019. Also known as Arfur C. |
| Favorite Movies | Koyaanisqaatsi, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Apocalypse Now, Hard Target, The Right Stuff, Casablanca, The Seven Samurai, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, About A Boy, Diva |
| Favorite Music | Orbital - Snivilisation, Scott Walker - Scott 3, Philip Glass - Koyaanisqaatsi OST, The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour, Portishead - Dummy, Loop Guru - Duniya, Brumel - Missa "Terra Motus Est", Bach - Goldberg Variations (Gould, 1981), Tindersticks - (second album), Les Troubabdours De Roi Baudouin - Missa Luba |
| Favorite Books | William Gibson - Neuromancer, Damon Runyon - Furthermore, Douglas Hofstadter - Godel Escher Bach, Richard Feynman - Surely You Must Be Joking Mr Feynman, TS Eliot - Selected Poems, JG Ballard - Collected Short Stories, Paul Reps - Zen Flesh Zen Bones, Edward Luttwak - The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, Will Self - Great Apes, Lawrence Durrell - The Alexandria Quartet, Jared Diamond - Guns Germs and Steel, Saki - The Collected Short Stories, Brian Eno - A Year With Swollen Appendices |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
The stuff that feet are made of