16 August 2003

This is an ancient blog post originally published by Brian Duff on 16 August 2003 on Radio Weblogs, and rescued from the Wayback Machine.

My first ever “Off Topic” blog :) I noticed this site which has some pictures of a Radiohead gig in Nimes, France myself and one of my colleagues from Oracle (Paul) went to in July. I can honestly say, without hesitation, that it was the greatest gig I’ve ever been to. Of course Radiohead are the Best Band in the World (ok I might be a bit biased), but the general atmosphere and setting of the gig were amazing.. We’re somewhere in this. :)

It’s kind of cool to find this, since we had a double-calamity-whopper with the digital cameras in Nimes. Paul’s camera wasn’t set up to do long exposure shots. My camera is capable of such things, but was left in the hotel room for fear of confiscation. In the event, Paul resorted to the novel and surprisingly effective camera smuggling technique of holding it in plain view in his hands. But sadly, his photos came out completely black :(. Still… it’s nice to look at this site and remember how cool it was to actually be there :)

Rob Clevenger, a product manager in the JDeveloper team just started a new blog…. Our little army is growing :)