{"id":534,"date":"2009-04-03T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emme.socialduchess.com\/2009\/04\/03\/fitting-in-with-the-oracle-crowd\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T21:34:00","slug":"fitting-in-with-the-oracle-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/03\/fitting-in-with-the-oracle-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitting in with the Oracle crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\"><br \/>For my DBA (Oracle Database Administration) class we were told to get a portable flash drive to store our databases on, one which we could easily transport to class.  I already had one, but it is large and has all my precious travel photos on it, so I grabbed a new one at Costco.  Well, we haven&#8217;t really needed it yet, but for the next course when we do, I decided to spruce mine up.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that most everyone in my classes are serious, older, already working in the field, professional IT types.  So I thought of a great way to fit in&#8230; &#8216;modding&#8217; my hardware and showing everyone I was a serious prospective database admin who will be more than ready to handle mission-critical systems with assurance, reliability and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xAj6Sussycc\/SdaB5hU5gYI\/AAAAAAAAAd0\/_HePYXfPkn0\/s1600-h\/hd1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320582834983371138\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xAj6Sussycc\/SdaB5hU5gYI\/AAAAAAAAAd0\/_HePYXfPkn0\/s1600\/hd1.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xAj6Sussycc\/SdaB5ob0piI\/AAAAAAAAAd8\/ySHcFC_nwtI\/s1600-h\/hd2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320582836891461154\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xAj6Sussycc\/SdaB5ob0piI\/AAAAAAAAAd8\/ySHcFC_nwtI\/s1600\/hd2.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" \/><\/a>Look, it&#8217;s so hardcore it has a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">back tat<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>Man I love sparklies.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my DBA (Oracle Database Administration) class we were told to get a portable flash drive to store our databases on, one which we could easily transport to class. I already had one, but it is large and has all my precious travel photos on it, so I grabbed a new one at Costco. Well, we haven&#8217;t really needed it yet, but for the next course when we do, I decided to spruce mine up. It seems that most everyone in my classes are serious, older, already working in the field, professional IT types. So I thought of a great way to fit in&#8230; &#8216;modding&#8217; my hardware and showing everyone I was a serious prospective database admin who will be more than ready to handle mission-critical systems with assurance, reliability and professionalism. Look, it&#8217;s so hardcore it has a back tat! Man I love sparklies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}