The Safari Web browser on Macintosh currently accounts for a paltry 4.34% of visits to this blog. It will be interesting to see whether this figure increases now Apple have released a version of Safari for Windows. I’ve downloaded Safari and while I like the fonts and appearance, I probably use too many Firefox add-ons to make the change permanently.

I was going to spend Saturday compiling very important guidelines for the formatting, style and content of comments but decided to go and watch the Ladies final and Men’s semi-finals at the Surbiton Trophy instead. I packed a lovely picnic (much to the envy of my neighbours), took a proper camera and enjoyed three matches in the sun: Brenda Schultz McCarthy (36 years old, 6 foot tall) beat Ayumi Morita (17 years old, 5 foot tall) in three entertaining sets. The eventual winner, Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, edged out the Australian 4th seed in a tight match featuring many impressive aces. Dodged for cover as 6'10" Croatian, Ivo Karlovic, smashed his way past a bewildered American, Robbie Kendrick (whose lovely girlfriend was sitting next to me).

Graham started a technical blog and Andy used the Drupal theme on his new WordPress blog. I felt left out so I decided to start a technical blog on Drupal with a WordPress theme.

Welcome to the long delayed and much anticipated issue 2 of ‘Recycle Pool’. We did have a world famous guest writer lined up for this month’s edition but, unfortunately, he got cold feet and decided to pull out at the last minute. Eddie Awad gets ready to tumble by sharing interesting snippets from his feeds and travels on the Web. Graham decides to start a technical blog focussed on three letter acronyms (CRM and SOA). Brave man, particularly as his wife is expecting a new arrival - imminently. ...

The Siebel 7.8 data model supports different industry applications (finance and banking, pharmaceutical, sales, telecommunications, energy, media, motor, public sector, retail) and contains 3,920 tables and even more indexes. The results are just in from a Friday afternoon poll to find the most popular Siebel table: S_ACCELERATOR - invaluable in performance tuning. ‘Oh well - there’s nothing for it. Now we are simply going to have to load S_ACCELERATOR’. S_CLUSTER_TNT - images of cluster bombs and high explosives but supposedly related to ‘Hospitality’. S_AUDIT_ITEM - typically will contain 155 million records of historic audit data dating back to 2003. No-one knows why this data is being collected let alone using it. S_DOCK_INITM_43 - Crazy name, crazy table. Docking table for Remote. S_CL_PTCL_LSXM - A real tongue twister related to clinical protocols. And finally… ...