I have a Linksys Wireless Broadband router (WRT54G). I have a Linksys Wireless USB network adapter (WUSB54G). The adapter is located 15 feet from the router in clear line of sight. The strength of the signal is 70%. There is also a (unsecured) wireless network detected with a strength of 73%. Where is this wireless network ? In the ceiling directly above my head ?

No - not another ‘poem’ from an angst ridden, lovesick teenager listening to Joy Division and Morrissey. Two months after Christmas, I finally got around to playing ‘X&Y’ by Coldplay. As I suspected, this is pure dinner party music but the singles are pleasant enough on the radio when driving. Chris Martin seems well intentioned but there is something unsettling about his intentionally unkempt hair, his children’s names and the plethora of multi-coloured wrist and finger bands he wore at Live 8. ...

Important message to all you bloggers contemplating a migration to WordPress.com. Google has just launched Google Pages - a Web site builder with lots of ‘Looks’ and ‘Layouts’ available to choose from and a nice, friendly easy to use WYSIWYG interface. Like all Web 2.0 applications, it is still a beta version. However, this seems an odd product to launch in 2006. As Mark E. Smith once said ‘Are you still doing what you did 5 years ago - Yeah ? Well - don’t make a career out of it’. ...

In a previous life, I was a development DBA. Sorry that’s not quite true. My job title was ‘Persistence Architect’ for a J2EE application. The Oracle database wasn’t really considered to be a database. In fact, it wasn’t even considered to be a repository either. The database was merely a means of persisting objects. There was a swear box for the terms ‘Table’, ‘Column’, ‘Database’, ‘record, ‘schema’, ‘SELECT’ and bizarrely, ‘PMON’. This meant I had to resurrect the word ’tuple’. ...

A kind gentleman (on The Chameleons forums) once reviewed ‘Interpol’s ‘Antics’ thus: No thanks. If I want to listen to Joy Division, I will put ‘Unknown Pleasures’ on. A worthy review which introduced me to one of my favourite bands. He also followed up more recently by reviewing ‘The Back Room’ by The Editors as follows: No thanks. If I want to listen to Interpol, I will put ‘Antics’ on. The jury is still out on this one but worth listening to, I think. Thanks again. ...

I had a beautifully crafted draft that said… So MySpace has a staggering 55 million users (well 54 million angst ridden, teen blogs with garish colours, dodgy photos and flash animations galore) while the more recently launched WordPress.com has a mere 110,000 blogs but a far more discerning, perceptive, technically minded and intelligent user base. Quality not quantity. …but now I see the most popular WordPress tag is ‘LECTURES’ so maybe WordPress also has 109,998 students, a Microsoft blogging evangelist and me. ...

To the good people who were searching for answers and somehow blundered onto my blog, here is my considered response. excuse for no homework Sorry but please stay behind after class and write out 100 times ‘There is simply no excuse’. However, I sincerely hope you did indeed try your luck with my suggestion and would dearly love to know the outcome. robbie fowler four times fingers Hmm. Don’t tell me you turned off at half-time too ? ...

When you find typos in Dave Allen’s ‘Getting Thing Done’ book, it’s a little deflating. Your mind which was starting to feel like smooth, unrippled water, becomes more like a dripping tap. Why, I haven’t felt like this since I discovered Paul McKenna is losing all his hair despite the power of mind over matter. p46. ‘At at’ -> ‘And at’ p49. ‘intution’ -> ‘intuition’ Any may your God go with you. ...

There are a variety of methods to extract, transform and load (ETL) data in and out of an Oracle database. This short article provides an overview of some of the basic options that are supplied with Oracle. L is for Load Firstly, we need a table to load data into. This SQL script creates a table called PERSON. create table person (person_id number(12), forename varchar2(200), surname varchar2(200), title varchar2(10), email varchar2(100), gender varchar2(1), ni_number varchar(30), address1 varchar2(100), address2 varchar2(100), town varchar2(100), county varchar2(100), postcode varchar2(10), country varchar2(100), phone varchar2(100), mobile varchar2(100), salary number(12), date_of_birth date); The following PL/SQL procedure may be used to populate this table with an arbitrary amount of data. ...

Buy one of these for 10 GBP. Give to partner as early Valentine present. Jot down following notes as contingency in case navigator happens to be asleep during crucial section around Antwerp ring road. Folkestone. Eurotunnel to Calais E40 Ostende E40 Bruges E40 Gent E17 Antwerp E34 Eindhoven If you note the time and zero the trip-o-meter, you can even get statistics on your journey.