• Saturday, September 20 (my birthday!!), 8am: Scuba diving in Monterrey Bay
• Sunday, September 21
  • 8:30am: Oracle RAC SIG Scalability Panel
  • 10am: Building an Oracle Real Application Clusters Environment on VMWare for Free (IOUG) (S301003)
  • 4pm: Oracle RAC SIG Birds of a Feather Session
  • 7pm: Oracle Blogger Meetup, Thirsty Bear
• Monday, September 22
  • 11:30am: So, You Want to Be an Oracle ACE? (co-presented with Sheeri Cabral) (S301397)
  • 2:30pm: Oracle RAC SIG Expert Panel
  • 4pm: Oracle ACE Office Hours (OTN Lounge)
  • 7:30pm: OTN Night at the Hilton
• Tuesday, September 23
  • 3pm: So, You Want to Be an Oracle ACE? (repeated–but never the same session twice–at OTN Unconference, Overlook I)
  • 4pm: Oracle Adaptive Access Manager: What, Why, How? at OTN Unconference, Overlook I)
  • 6pm: Oracle ACE Dinner
• Wednesday, September 24
  • 11am: Communication for Geeks unconference session by Bex
  • 1pm: Oracle RAC SIG: Telecom on Oracle Real Application Clusters–Extreme OLTP
• Thursday, September 25
  • 10:30am: Oracle ACE Director Birds-of-a-Feather Tips and Techniques Panel
  • 12pm (noon): Integrating Microsoft Active Directory and Oracle Internet Directory with Database Logins: Enterprise User Security (IOUG) (S300044)
  • Heading home…

I’m also watching out for Jake’s unconference session which he said he’ll schedule onsite. In between all these events, I’ve got some sessions I’m hoping to attend as well. Of course, evenings will no doubt be filled with networking with (hopefully) lots of people I haven’t met yet as well as the usual suspects like Matt, Eddie, Jake, Bex, and lots of other cool iPhone-carrying coolkids (I don’t have one, btw).

I’ll be attempting to tweet regularly and keep my location somewhat current on Brightkite as well. Prepare for hearing a lot about how much contempt I have for my phone in the course of all that (my contract ends in November!).

On a completely unrelated note, unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend the UKOUG conference in December this year as I had previously hoped. The reasons are the usual ones…priorities, money, personal obligations, etc. I’m sincerely grateful to UKOUG for accepting my session and quite unhappy that I won’t be able to attend this year. I’m already gearing up for a 3+-conference year next year with the hopes that UKOUG will be on the list. Not sure AUSOUG will make the list next year…we’ll see (there is great diving in AU, so that may influence my decisions!).

See you in a few days in San Francisco!

I have a lot of plans to attend some of the good RAC and Identity Management sessions at OOW. I won’t bore you with my personal pick list, but if you’re looking for me (because you want to hear a good joke or I owe you money or some such thing), you’ll definitely find me at these sessions since I’m involved in them to some extent:

• Sunday, 11-Nov
  • 10 am: High Availability Options for Oracle Database, Moscone West 2003
  • 1 pm: Is that really you? Prove it!, Moscone West 2005
  • 2:30 pm: 11g Database Beta Testing Panel, Moscone West 2004
  • 4 pm: RAC SIG Birds of a Feather session, Moscone West 2002
• Monday, 12-Nov
  • 10 am: Piocon Booth, Moscone South
  • 12:30 pm: RAC SIG Customer Panel, Moscone South 310
  • 4:45 pm: RAC For Beginners: The Basics, Hilton Continental Ballroom 6
  • 7:30 pm: OTN Night, Westin St. Francis Hotel
• Tuesday, 13-Nov
  • 10 am: Piocon Booth, Moscone South
  • 12:15 pm: RAC SIG Expert Panel
  • 3:15 pm: Demystifying Fusion Middleware, Hilton Yosemite Room C
• Wednesday, 14-Nov
  • 9 am: Piocon Booth, Moscone South
  • 11:15 am: other technical sessions
  • 3 pm: Piocon Booth, Moscone South
  • 8 pm: PARTY @ Cow Palace
• Thursday, 15-Nov
  • 10 am: Piocon Booth, Moscone South
  • 11:30 am: other technical sessions
  • 5 pm: It’s a wrap reception, Howard Street

Should be a fun week. Please stop by and meet me at one of these places or anywhere else you happen to see me. Now, back to preparing the presentations for my sessions . See you in SF! Travel safe.