I won an iPod at php|tek. Since Apple does not support Vorbis Ogg my options were either to install some third party firmware or to sell the iPod. I went with option #3 and gave it to a friend of mine who is moving to South Africa for an internship that will have him traveling a fair bit. Since he is still using mp3 he got it as a farewell present. Now other friends have noted an interest in iPods as well. Since apparently outside of IT iPods giveaways are less common I will try to get each of them an iPod with my awesome computing skills (Ok, I won the first one with drinking alcohol, but I still have not really acquired the taste for drinking so ..).

I am getting closer to finally holding a university degree in my hands. I am now all through with exams. Well admittedly I still need some signatures, but I trust the two professors in question to keep their word.

A while back Tobias published an article on MDB2 and MDB2_Schema on the oracle technology network (OTN for short). Since MDB2 has gone stable since and has seen some API adjustments I just wanted to update some of the points in the article. However most changes do not affect the article. So here are just a few points:

After I put out my call for assistance for writing MDB2 docs I got a lot of positive feedback from people who wanted to help. Unfortunately nothing concret has materialized. So I decided its time that I jump start the effort by completing the bulk of step 1 in my call to action. The core API of MDB2 is now documented in the official PEAR manual. Enjoy and feel free to expand.

I just tweaked the URLs to specific messages on my blog quite a bit. The URLs that were previously generated as follows: