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• It’s a Lot Less Interesting than Male-to-Female Sex Reassignment Surgery

  I'm back! It’s been a while since my last blog post but reader-pressure has forced me to come out of retirement. Firstly I received an email from Tammy Freeman asking me the following: “One of my tasks at work is to come up with documentation on cost-efficient Read More... Posted 05 October 2008 23:55 by Anonymous | 3 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil, SoBI, Oil and Gas, MDM, Master Data Management

• Bernard Manning & Spandex Pants

  The NFL came to the UK the other week, when the New York Dreadnoughts took on the Miami Flange Brackets at the “Wembley Bowl” in London (England). Apparently one million people applied for tickets to see 120 fat men rolling around in the mud, Read More... Posted 22 November 2007 16:10 by Anonymous | 1 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, SoBI, Oil and Gas, MDM, Master Data Management

• De Do Do Do, De Da Da DA DBA DBAA

  It's becoming increasingly common for me to walk into the office and be asked I would be able to spare half an hour to install 250GB of RAID 5 disk in a development server. Like many of our clients, my co-workers are confused by the roles and increasingly Read More... Posted 18 August 2007 18:34 by Anonymous | 5 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil and Gas

• Conchango's Hairiest Man (2006)

  It has been a while since my last post. There are a number of reasons for this - lack of time, the fact that blogging comes quite low on my list of fun things to do and mainly because the blog posts I had lined up on my laptop were dealt a severe blow Read More... Posted 26 March 2007 23:43 by Anonymous | 3 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, SoBI, Oil and Gas, MDM, Master Data Management

• Barnsley or Bakersfield?

  Conchango is making strenuous efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. Initiatives include an energy efficient kettle, low-carb light bulbs, recycling bins, and a scheme to ensure all non essential electrical items are switched off in the evening. In a Read More... Posted 15 January 2007 06:01 by Anonymous | 3 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, SoBI, Oil and Gas

• Thoughts on Bottomhole Pressure

  The group I’m working with is responsible for defining strategy, principles, practices and re-usable components for upstream data integration projects globally. Currently I spend half my time in the UK and half in California. It’s not as glamorous Read More... Posted 15 December 2006 16:09 by Anonymous | 1 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil, Oil and Gas

• Warm Lager and a Sarong

  Allow me to be the second to congratulate Jamie Thomson on reaching #2 in the Google search results for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Jamie is Conchango's celebrity blogger, and has developed something of a cult following in cyberspace. Read More... Posted 02 December 2006 01:00 by Anonymous | 4 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil, SoBI, Oil and Gas

• Eggs Benedict in San Francisco

  Hello and welcome to my blog. It’s been a war of attrition between me and the Conchango establishment to get me to write a blog. Clearly I’ve lost. I’m currently sat in a hotel room in Bakersfield and since I have no interest in Country Read More... Posted 28 November 2006 02:19 by Anonymous | 2 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil, SoBI, Oil and Gas