Sshh. Please don't tell my therapist but BlogPulse matches the tone, content and links of this blog with Laura's Playground dedicated to 'Transsexual and Transgendered News'.
I think I need to put my favourite pink panties on and sit down with a cold drink.
You were good but not that good otherwise you wouldnt have needed extra time against Mexico and would have beaten the Germans in two hours of football.
Still, at least this will finally end to the (UK) media love-in about your fantastic football and the two best goals scored ever. You know; the one with 24 passes in the buildup and that superb, dipping volley.
Refreshing to see Gabriel Heinze attacking FIFA officials instead of lying on the turf and sobbing uncontrollably which is the proper way to face defeat in a penalty shootout.
A long day tuning SQL queries using Siebel 7.8 and Oracle 10gR2...
We used the Siebel recommended settings (TechNote 582). We used the Oracle recommended settings.
We gathered table statistics.
We gathered index statistics.
We gathered column histograms.
We dropped statistics on empty tables (Alert 1162).
We set some miscellaneous (magic) underscore parameters to encourage CBO to use the correct index.
We poured over 10053 trace files.
We used a 15 year old, deprecated, desupported optimizer technology to reduce a complex 27 table (outer) join query with a subquery to subsecond from an hourglass.
We opened an SR with Oracle Technical Support.
We opened an SR with Siebel Technical Support.
We used a stored outline.
We went home.
So farewell then, Graham Poll.
Your lifelong dream of officiating in the World Cup final is dead.
However, you only have yourself to blame. Counting the number of yellow cards awarded and to whom is a fundamental part of your job and you failed.
In August 2002, I visited Florida on holiday. In return for what seemed like 7 successive days at theme parks in sweltering weather, my family kindly allowed me a visit to the Kennedy Space Center which was a fantastic day out.
As luck would have it, a shuttle launch was actually scheduled during our stay so I planned to drive out to the highway to watch it. Unfortunately, the initial launch was postponed due to inclement weather conditions so I sporadically checked the TV and radio for the rearranged launch date and time.
One afternoon, I returned to the car and turned the radio on. I was disappointed to hear that the shuttle had just launched. However, what was infuriating was that I was only located a few miles away from KSC and missed a once in a lifetime opportunity because I was, err, shopping.
So, at the precise moment the space shuttle was blasting off into outer space, I was traipsing around Wal-Mart, for reasons that now escape me, hunting for a Phillips screwdriver, a pair of nail scissors and 4 AAA batteries.
Poor old Spain. After their fans roundly booed the French anthem, I was almost rooting for them to prevail over France last night. However, I don't like Luis Aragones. I think he is an arrogant racist so I was quite pleased that France beat them. Well, no, hang on a minute, actually no I wasn't that pleased because I also think Thierry Henry is an arrogant cheat.
Let's just hope Brazil beat France on Saturday.
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My life is now complete. Almost.
On Monday, I received two DVDs (Ascension) containing 225 minutes from some of the last shows by The Chameleons in San Francisco from October 2002.
Great songs, great lyrics, great artwork. Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.
PS. Don't bother commenting that this contravenes rule 3. I know.
On Friday, I saw the massive Rooney crucifixion poster on the westbound M4 in Brentford near the GSK offices.
I think the Nike creative is an interesting use of religious imagery. Deliberately provocative but much better than the unimaginative, banal media advertising we normally see in the UK although my wife was heard to mutter 'Ugly man, ugly face, ugly poster'.