Posts from December 07, 2006

I suspect the following notice in not uncommon in toilets throughout the world.

Please show consideration for others and leave this toilet in a state you would expect/hope/pray to find it.

However, this closing line is quintessentially British

A toilet brush is provided, should it prove necessary.

I find it weird that I can carry around 4GB of disk storage in my pocket.

I find it staggering that I can buy a disk drive with a credit card that could comfortably store 95% of all the production Siebel OLTP databases I have encountered.

1. Tighten security for all parties by addressing this issue:

The Password must contain only ASCII alphanumeric characters.

1. The 'Quick Links to the Latest Patchsets' is a great idea spoilt only by the absurd complexity in navigating the resulting pull-down.

If you possess the hand/eye co-ordination and reflexes to successfully navigate to the correct platform and the desired version first time, you could probably make a fortune playing those impossible 'Win a cuddly lion with this crane like mechanism' kiosks at the fun fair.