My forums seems to be getting a lot of spam at the moment. I’m running the latest patch of phpBB, so I don’t think it’s a security issue. I think it’s just some very patient spammers. If you visit the site and see adverts for certain drugs to make older men very happy or picture [...]
I can’t remember where I first heard the phrase “Compulsive Tuning Disorder”, but it was mentioned again at ORCAN recently. I guess my approach to the database is almost the opposite of that. Maybe “Compulsive Non-Tuning Disorder”. When you’re reading the blog posts on the internet you could be forgiven for thinking that every Oracle [...]
I noticed this today. One of my friends is currently developing a site using Silverlight 3 beta and he gave me a demo. I was extremely impressed. It seems much more responsive than the Flash equivalent to me and all the programming was done in .NET, so it was a more consistent approach than using [...]
My assessment of the morning after my operation… It hurts! I sense a few days of liberal use of pain killers and very little movement coming on. As part of my paranoia about dying on the slab, I sent details of how to keep ORACLE-BASE.com alive after my death to a friend. He lives in [...]
The operation went well and I’m back home now. They gave me a local in my arm as well as the general anesthetic, so when I came round everything felt fine. It’s starting to wear off now so it feels a bit nasty. I think I will hit the drugs in a bit. No point [...]
Today’s the day. In a few hours I’ll be off to hospital to have an operation on my elbow to try and fix my left hand. The recovery will be anywhere from 6-12 weeks, depending on how much damage they have to do during the process. Assuming there are no complications, I should be fine [...]
During my recent trips I read the last two books in the Discworld series… Wintersmith – The Wintersmith (the God of winter, sort-of) falls in love with Tiffany Aching, a young witch. If Tiffany handles it badly the discworld cold be thrown into a permanent winter. The 4th in the young adults series. I got [...]
This week I caught up on a couple of films… X-Men Origins: Wolverine – I’ve seen all I want to see of Hugh Jackman. When I saw the first X-Men film he was by far the coolest character. Now he just bores me. Even so, this was a pretty cool film. Mostly because of the [...]
Swingbench is a pretty useful load generator and I can’t say I really had any issue with version 2.2, but this morning I downloaded the 2.3 candidate and it has a lot of neat new features. Sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference, like now it can take AWR snapshots before and [...]
When I was in Bulgaria I was talking to Mark Rittman, who used to be a club DJ, and he was talking about how he used to be cool and now he’s a computer geek and a dad… I was recently contacted by a friend from University who I’d not seen for nearly 20 years. [...]