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Editors Note: When Mike Brown shared this listwith me it rang very trueand brought an ear-to-ear

grin to my otherwise over-worked day. Mike has hitthe nail square on the headwith this fun but oh so aptlist, and hopefully you willenjoy as much as we did.

10.The company dresscode includes paja-mas. You appreciate theefciency.

9. The word VACATIONis missing from theAbsence Type LOV inOracle Self-Service HR.

8. The last movie you sawwas The Matrixbecause you thought itWAS an Oracle confer-ence. Youre waiting forthe sequel, but only ifyou CHOOSE.

7. Your favorite ring tone isthe theme from ESCAPE FROMALCATRAZ.

6. HR suggests that everyone exer-

cise. You choose a PERP WALKto the coffee machine.

5. Your kids nd you asleep on thesofa. They ask who the strangeris. Your spouse draws a blank.

4. During Oracle Inventory set-up,youre described as STORAGEUNIT HIGH DENSITY. Youfeel its a mistake, but cant nda sympathetic ear.

3 Snippets of ad copy run throughyour head. A mind is a terriblething seems to dominate.

2. Your computer no longer asksfor your Oracle apps login andpassword. Instead, a grouchywizard appears and says, Oh,its you again!

1. An online dating service recentlyfound you to be 97% compatiblewith a duel-core 64-bit proces-sor. You sent back your proleand get a haircut.

Michael Brown, New Future MediIt is a pleasure to welcome Mik

Brown to our team of ORAtips associate editors heading up our humourdepartment. Coupled with runninghis own small production company otalented lmmakers, entrepreneursand business people, Mike bringwith him many years of stand-upcomedy and a powerful writing stylthat lends to insightful candour aboutthe world of Oracle technology.

Ten Ways to Know When Your Oracle Project

Has Taken Over Your Life!By Michael B

airplane pic here of instrument panel

Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink. It just seems that in Oracle, there is data, data, everywherelittle that is actionable when it is needed. So if information can migrate from / to a spreadsheet dashboard withgages - running a business could be more like ying a plane. So, we could have the Oracle Jet - Beam me up, were low on toner!

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