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With many apologies to David Bowie, come 2009 it was my 5 year anniversary with Sun (well, MySQL AB and then Sun). 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There are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "code"","block_context":{"text":"code","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/code\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1024,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/twitter-updates-for-2008-02-29\/","url_meta":{"origin":3690,"position":3},"title":"Twitter Updates for 2008-02-29","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-02-29","format":false,"excerpt":"to bed: 5:15am, awakened at 11:15am by FedEx. 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