Brendan Furey
@brenpatf.bsky.social
IT Consultant, Oracle database specialist, mufc fan, reader, jogger, programmer. Europhile. #blacklivesmatter
Programming blog: https://brenpatf.github.io
Programming blog: https://brenpatf.github.io
📚💙Watched the new netflix film Train Dreams:
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
...after reading the novella by Denis Johnson:
www.theguardian.com/books/2012/s...
Both very unusual and beautiful.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
...after reading the novella by Denis Johnson:
www.theguardian.com/books/2012/s...
Both very unusual and beautiful.
Train Dreams review – Joel Edgerton superb in Malickian story of trees, grief and railroads
A logger clears a path for change in this sunset-hour-tastic adaptation by Clint Bentley – clearly a director of considerable power and feeling
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:59 AM
📚💙Watched the new netflix film Train Dreams:
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
...after reading the novella by Denis Johnson:
www.theguardian.com/books/2012/s...
Both very unusual and beautiful.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
...after reading the novella by Denis Johnson:
www.theguardian.com/books/2012/s...
Both very unusual and beautiful.
📚💙Finished Vaim by John Fosse - short novel based around a Norway village, with three characters' perspectives in engaging stream of consciousness; started The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Vaim by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate performs a strange miracle
In the Norwegian master’s latest example of ‘mystical realism’, one man makes a dreamlike, hypnotic voyage through life
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
📚💙Finished Vaim by John Fosse - short novel based around a Norway village, with three characters' perspectives in engaging stream of consciousness; started The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
📚💙Finished Postwar by Tony Judt - history of post-war Europe: long, but worth the effort; started A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
www.theguardian.com/books/2005/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2005/d...
Review: Postwar by Tony Judt
Norman Davies applauds Tony Judt's Postwar, a personal view of our continent's recent history.
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
📚💙Finished Postwar by Tony Judt - history of post-war Europe: long, but worth the effort; started A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
www.theguardian.com/books/2005/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2005/d...
Great podcast (with brilliant theme tune)
August 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Great podcast (with brilliant theme tune)
I completed the migration of articles from my Wordpress blog, to my GitHub Pages blog. It turned out to be easier than I had expected, thanks to an open source migration utility, and ChatGPT, which helped a lot with the blog structure changes.
brenpatf.github.io/migrated/
brenpatf.github.io/migrated/
Migrated Articles
Brendan’s blog on programming, unit testing, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL and other languages
brenpatf.github.io
August 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I completed the migration of articles from my Wordpress blog, to my GitHub Pages blog. It turned out to be easier than I had expected, thanks to an open source migration utility, and ChatGPT, which helped a lot with the blog structure changes.
brenpatf.github.io/migrated/
brenpatf.github.io/migrated/
I have restructured this series with an index page:
brenpatf.github.io/2024/06/30/o...
brenpatf.github.io/2024/06/30/o...
Optimization Problems with Items and Categories in Oracle
The knapsack problem is a problem in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each with a weight and a value, determine the number of each item to include in a collection so that the total we...
brenpatf.github.io
July 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I have restructured this series with an index page:
brenpatf.github.io/2024/06/30/o...
brenpatf.github.io/2024/06/30/o...