Stumbled across this blog. Another young life ended prematurely. Sad. Very sad.

I had the misfortune to visit a very angry customer today. He was having problems loading customer data into Siebel. I sat him down with a nice cup of tea and invited him to tell me all about his woes. ‘Well Norman - it’s like this you see. We used to be able to load 400,000 contacts per hour. Now performance is absolutely abysmal and it takes 12 minutes to load just 1,000.’ ...

Three, err, lucky people won the following, err, prize at the recent Oracle Partner Network day at UKOUG in Birmingham. ‘3 lucky winners have won a “Virgin Experience Voucher” to the value of £140.’

‘Norman. Come here. I have a crisis. Quickly.’ ‘What’s up ?’ ‘I have a flat tyre.’ It is dark. Mainly because it is 7.30 at night. I sigh inwardly and get a torch. ‘Hmm. You’re right. That tyre really is flat. Didn’t you notice the car pulling to the right ?’ ‘No. The car was driving fine. Norman Junior did say that the car was leaning and he kept falling over though.’ ...

Engtech has some great references stressing the importance of the blog title when trying to attract readers. However, this merely confirms what I already knew. A couple of weeks ago, I posted this entry which brought a trickle of traffic from TailRank. This, in turn, brought another article about the same news story to my attention. My post was titled: ‘361 days to go’ The other article was titled: ‘Black Cat Thunderbolt Rocket Up The Arse’ ...