London, near England. 1 December 2006 Brightside Productions proudly announce the launch ‘From The Murky Depths Of The Recycle Pool.’ This innovative blog series will round up the latest happenings from the blogosphere with a sideways glance at Oracle. The blog will feature a variety of exciting formats including articles, podcasts, video blogs and live satellite links. Assuming I get that microphone, Webcam and satellite dish for Christmas that is. ...
I made an unexpected debut at my wife’s book club last night because because I just happened to have read the book in question and my wife (still) has a flat tyre. We all met up at Rosemary Barnstormworth’s house and she had thoughtfully laid on prawn volavons, curry flavoured twiglets and copious amounts of wine. Obviously, this was my first team debut so I was understandably nervous. However, I needn’t have worried as I already knew some of the ladies present and I was warmly welcomed with a large glass of wine. ...
Hilarious [Via Pete Ashton]
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’ ...
Phil McIntyre is busy blogging right now.
Some principled bloggers leave all comments untouched afraid that any subsequent edit (no matter how seemingly trivial) would represent the slippery slope to censorship, a police state, the inevitable involvement of Amnesty International and charity gigs by U2. Apart from a single comment by a member of the BNP, I have never had this problem until now. A new comment on the post #45 “music for a (very) long car journey” Mate, you’re a dick A new comment on the post #485 “flowery twats” Mate, it was obviously you’re fault you twat. ...