Research and Destroy

A lot of thanks to Code To Joy for the best Java Exception I ever saw: JavaDoc of CME

Ein schönes und wahres Bild was mir Manuel gerade zukommen hat lassen (via mike-gareiss.de):

bleiente pointed out this very nice book about databases. I’m sure it describes every issue you ever had with a database in a comprehensible way.

Bloggingtom has an interesting comparison of the iPhone with another very useful device. This device, like the iPhone, is (or at least was) crucial to human survival. Some thousand years or so ago:

So what would you buy… Do you really need a touch screen?

Let’s hope we all don’t share his fate next week…

Being late to a meeting usually is a downside. At least for the people who are waiting for a department meeting. Especially if it’s a rather large department. To avoid this instituded a being-late-hog:

Everybody who’s even one second too late for a meeting has to feed it with € 0.50. In comparison to other companies that’s rather cheap, where this rate can get up to about € 5.00 per minute! And as we know, money accumulates over time:

Doing the annual statement of the account we’ve collected about € 62! That’s more than I expected. Much more even. The bright side is: this amount should suffice to have a nice barbecue with steak and sausage, and even some beer. On the downside of this: about 124 times someone was too late for a regular meeting, or didn’t turn up without prior excuse. In a years worth of department meetings, what is about houndred meetings, usually having two regular meetings per week.

English, despite what we’re told in school, is a hard language to learn for non-natives.

I just received a notification that a task assinged to me was closed by a collegue, this was his comment:

G. S. closed DEFECT-0815.

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Resolution: Fixed

Caused by a version mismatsh.

:-)

Sure…

Via FAIL Blog