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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My final business trip to the Redwood Shores area: revisiting some familiar haunts one last time…

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The view from one of the many rooftop bars along the Vistula River with amazing views of beautiful Krakow

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Testing the Translator Go app - the translation isn’t perfect but it enables me to read a book in French adequately

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

People say “you could count that on the fingers of one hand” not realizing that is a 5 bit value meaning you can count to 31 on one hand and 1023 on two hands

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Lessons learned: when there’s torrential rain and you’re in an area where 2/3 of restaurant seating is outside, you NEED a reservation when there is rain blocking 2/3 of the seats

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Model of RB20 finished taking pride of place in the bookshelf - just the new rules made this year’s RB22 significantly different #lego #redbullracing

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Polish Oracle User Group @pougorg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

@rogermacnicol.bsky.social + one last encore = storage fireworks! 🎆 "Intelligent storage, a 20 year retrospective" at #POUG2026. Oracle legend, legendary stories, legendary send-off. Don’t miss the final chapter. 💾🔥 Tickets: poug.org/edycja/poug2...

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Our local town meeting, because, sure, those two things are clearly related 🥴

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Have I mentioned how much I hate 6am flights? Leaving the hotel at 3:30am for a 4am check in for international flights. Bleah!

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Old Soviet joke: Brezhnev: The USSR has the world’s most perfect democracy. Reagan: What? On what basis? B: God said so! R: No! Where did he say that? B: Did you not read in Genesis, God created Eve then told Adam “Choose for yourself a wife” 😂

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The final episode of The Undeclared War about Russian espionage showed a screenful of what GCHQ thought was garbage to fool anti malware. It took me 1 second to say oh that base 64 encoding. Two minutes later the GCHQ expert says base 64 encoding 😂 instantly recognisable as how we print rowids.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Only in America would you need to specify that the beer tastes like beer 🥴

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Do you want some coffee? Just a minute, I’m upgrading the firmware in my coffee mug 😂 Yes this conversation happened yesterday ☕️

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I think someone stole my number plate 😉

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The original Windows UI circa late 16th century. Keep multiple books open at different pages and rapidly flick between them when studying.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I learnt today that tacos were invented by the Lebanese when they came to Puebla and wanted to reinvent Schwarma

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I think my golden doodle is a vampire. He goes out the dog door without a second thought, but won’t come back in through it unless you invite him in 🐶🧛

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I rewatched The Gorge in AppleTV tonight - despite the plot having more holes than a road in New Jersey, the movie works because of the powerful chemistry between the lovely #AnyaTaylor-Joy and Miles Teller. It should be up for an Oscar

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I watched fantasy-comic-horror movie #DeathofaUnicorn tonight. I always enjoy seeing #JenaOrtega on the screen and the entire movie is well cast (Tea Leoni Well, the horn does have a lot of girth 😉)

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I inherited 50 Dave Brubeck albums, mostly from the 60’s, so need to run them all through the ultrasonic bath before playing them #vinyl #brubeck #davebrubeck #jazz #humminguru

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Three day internals review of all the amazing developments this year

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Annual pilgrimage to see the Oracle

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

EWR is our home airport but last night Steph rebooked her return from TX to land at MDT instead. I’ve just rebooked my trip to HQ to fly out of MDT rather than EWR. apple.news/AL7D9LiI8RNG...

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Radar screens at Newark airport went black again overnight — ABC News

The brief outage happened at 3:55 a.m.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The cuter the face, the more the mischief …

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Delivery guy asked how old our farmhouse was. “1815.” “Cool, Thomas Jefferson was still alive.” That was the most unexpected (and erudite) reaction we’ve ever had.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I worked on a project at Sybase which one senior new hire described as “the most complex possible design that could still work” 😂

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Hilarious and heartbreaking take on Trump’s Dictator Chic redecoration of the White House Oval Office: www.patreon.com/posts/126873...

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The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise | McMansion Hell

Get more from McMansion Hell on Patreon

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This is why I think Prince Harry represents the best of what a monarchy could be apple.news/AZQQSbUamRde...

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Busy morning drawing up a list of things to buy before Trump’s damned tariffs take effect: tea, coffee, chocolate, French wine, fruit preserves, and Armagnac. What am I missing?

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 04/02/2025

Two of these three accts were precaptured by this (reliable) block list. It's one that was started in 2023 (aka before the Blue No Matter Whovian surge in November 2024) so it's more trusted imo. (FYI bsky only shows one list per profile; it's possible these trashbags are on multiple block lists).

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This feature has been deprecated for 37 years and still works today

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The new “Export Control Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion” is crazy government overreach which will severely limit intelligence in cloud deployments worldwide www.oracle.com/news/announc...

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Happy Twelfth Night - it drives me crazy when Americans think the 12 days of Christmas are before Christmas rather than after. Twelfth Night signals the Eve of Epiphany which is when the Magi traditionally visited Mary’s newborn wee bairn.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Rocky is at that 18 month velociraptor phase doodles go through. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve said: I’m NOT a chew toy, you can’t eat your human, I’d have retired to a private yacht

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

The easiest way to avoid trolls is to leave Twitter … also it’s illegal in Norway so be sure to delete the app before entering the country 😀

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I think the ban on TikTok has little to do with Chinese ownership (if it was they would ban 200 other Chinese apps like India did). It is all about driving that revenue to Instagram reels and Google Shorts.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I can attest: ALGOL-68 has the basis of how I formulate programs for my whole life. (cf. Pascal for you younger programmers)

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The new Apple Music Replay summary of my 2024 listening, you, that’s me

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

ORA-600 [qer*.cvl] We added asserts that the lenb of the data did not exceed the data dictionary length and backported to 19c (19.17 I think) to avoid memory errors in hash and sort objects.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

At 3:15 this morning, I was woken by my pillow inexplicably shrinking 🧐 Rocky claimes to know nothing about this.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Every single night running up to the election, Trump ran hate filled anti-trans ads on TV. My physician wife has 7 trans patients: I fear for them under the new government.

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Roger MacNicol @rogermacnicol.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Our 18 month old golden doodle won a place in a photo competition a few months ago - now he’s Mr February. Sadly he can’t take advantage of his fame as he’s been neutered.

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