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On January 5, I received an email called “Video” from my friend and former employee Guðmundur Jósepsson from Iceland. His friends call him Gummi (rhymes with “who-me”). Gummi is the guy whose name is set in the ridiculous monospace font on page xxiv of Optimizing Oracle Performance, apparently because O’Reilly’s Linotype Birka font didn’t have the letter eth (ð) in it. Gummi once modestly teased me that this is what he is best known for. But I digress...

His email looked like this: