I've started playing this:

http://www.hyperiums.com/

It's like an old game I used to play on my Amiga. Real-time turn based - so you spend like 5 minutes a day playing. (Haha, right after checking your email).

The games, I suppose, last for months.

From a friend, who says that if you get to this point, he has quite reasonable consulting rates:

http://waxy.org/random/images/weblog/love_your_job.gif

For some reason, I'm very entertained by this email and it's reply.

"13 things that do not make sense" - an interesting look at pieces of physics we don't understand yet.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524911.600

The quote:

"An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true"

Seems particularly funny in light of my current responsibilities at work.

I've been playing a little too much World Of Warcraft (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/).

If you play, drop me a note online. I'm Baeyn (Horde) and Daes (Alliance). I haven't really picked a side yet, so I'm low level on both. ;)

I play on the DoomHammer server.

Here's some cultural differences for you. The US pays for things like snowplows and tornado warning systems. In Australia, there are other problems: http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Swimmers-left-high-and-dry-as-sharks-close-in/2004/12/27/1103996493767.html

I do have a vague memory of being evacuated from the water once, as a child. Of course, the next day I was back in!

Very entertaining link, forwarded to me by a friend.

http://stealthlogic.org/downloads/har/

Look at the pictures in order.

gvim has syntax hilighting for Oracle's ".ora" configuration files.

I find that disturbing. It's kind of like your girlfriend sleeping with the school bully.

Having used postgres and mysql SQL clients to connect to a remote db, I must say, I can think of nothing less intuitive than having to enter:

CHARISMA =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = charisma2)(PORT = 1521))
)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVICE_NAME = spec.charisma)
)
)

in C:\oracle\product\10.1.0\db_2\NETWORK\ADMIN\tnsnames.ora to do it.

But hey, that's just me. What do I know?

Maybe we need a thread, like:

"If your programming language was designed the way Oracle was..."

Hey, we could even end it with:

"It'd be WebSphere"

Yes, the only thing I hate more than Oracle is WebSphere. And I'm not as sure as I once was about that.

I'm trying to install oracle, so I'm in a bad mood (you wouldn't believe...) and searching for "Oracle" and several swearwords, and I came across this:

http://caustictech.typepad.com/caustictech/

Very entertaining.