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Gardening Leave
Got called to personnel on Friday. Breathy voice, urgent. Shouda known, they're making the "post" of senior software developer redundant. You guessed it, it's me. In fact the "post" was created so that they could head hunt me from Oracle. Arseholes
Near death experiences on the A41
Ah yes, come out of work and turn towards Chester. First bend someone on the wrong side of the road overtaking who gets in OK, I flashed headlights and got a load of sign language. Next bend someone on the wrong side of the road overtaking with n
Who the hell are word of mouth?
Just got an anonymous content-free email sourced from https://Word-of-Mouth.Org on my personal email (which isn't visible anywhere). When I went to try to reply to whoever sent the mail they wanted 20 bux. Another spam rip-off. Diary Stuff Di
What makes good code?
Posted against http://www.freeroller.net/page/ktorn/20030713 I learned a lot from the old standards Java Examples in a Nutshell and Java Enterprise in a Nutshell. I also liked Darwin's Java Cookbook, he has some useful stuff about common gotchas and
Visual Source Safe "Merge" - yeauch
Well, the utility is misnamed. I found myself looking at three identical panes and could not resolve which I wanted. It just doesn't work. Got a copy of Winmerge from Source Forge http://download.sourceforge.net/winmerge/WinMergeSetup.exe and ex
Disturbing Spam
The spammers seem to have got my private email address. Very annoying. Received a particularly disgusting one with a piccie of someone allegedly giving her dog a BJ. I do not want to see this kind of thing, it makes me sick and sad to see how someone
R E M at Old Trafford
Went to see REM at the Old Trafford Criket ground on Sunday. They were headlining the final day of the Move festival. Oranger. Pretty predictable stuff from the USA. The Foos have already done this and done it better. Athlete. An English Steely Da
Had better days - looking forward to broadband
Struggling to test stuff because things are buried very deep in the database. Very excited because broadband getting installed tomorrow (well ISDN ceased). Roger recommended that we use an old box as a firewall http://www.smoothwall.org/, wire it to
The Macro and the Micro
Really How little it all matters The petty pains and frustrations of the day Your little micro world measured against the macro The machine suffering of millions
More misery at Oracle UK
Just got a list of names from a fellow ex-Oracle bod. About 15 or so, most of whom I knew. It's rumoured that they're going to quarterly reviews of staffing levels. So much for vision. I'm glad I jumped when I did. Just to rub salt in, Oracle skill