...so welcome to my first post! I'll try to make this my only "meta" entry for a while and get down to the real content in short order.
Steven Chan encourages Stone Soup. Tom Kyte suggests participating in the community as a means of bettering oneself professionally. Jeff Atwood advocates maximizing the value of ones keystrokes. So I'm starting this blog, a project that I've been mulling for over a year. The trick, of course, will be to see if the blog itself lasts for more than a year. The first step will be to generate something more than this post and an "about" page or two. 
So, if you have room in your feed reader, please join me as I ramble on about my experiences with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle RDBMS, Linux, VMware, working on a Mac, and the ever-popular "whatever else strikes my fancy." Maybe someone will benefit from what I will write here, just as I've learned from other corners of the community. We'll see how that goes.
Regards,
John P.
