Australian TV presents a tender moment…
by TheFAQQer on Jul.02, 2009, under jokes
Live TV moment from Australian breakfast TV, which brought a tear to my eye…
More drivel
by TheFAQQer on May.30, 2009, under Drivel, W**k, stats
Drivel stats are up to date again 
Swine Flu on Twitter
by TheFAQQer on May.10, 2009, under jokes
Truly British Swine Flu
by TheFAQQer on May.07, 2009, under Web stuff
My sister just sent me this, which made me chuckle (particularly the spelling 
) …
Do some people have nothing better to do??
by TheFAQQer on Mar.19, 2009, under Uncategorized
You know what I’m talking about – well, does she????
Much delayed….
by TheFAQQer on Mar.08, 2009, under Drivel
The TPD drivel stats are up to date (although the next 000 will probably go tonight / tomorrow).
I’ve not updated them for 10000, and seem to have missed some PMs that I used to get when a 000 was hit.
Mind you, if I went onto CUK more often than at present, I might not miss these things…..
Sinister interview…
by TheFAQQer on Mar.04, 2009, under W**k
Phone interview tomorrow – it’s the first one in a while.
In fact, it’s been 666 days since my last phone interview, which is a bit spooky really. Hopefully it won’t be too devilish – although I already know that one topic they want lots on is something I know next to nothing about.
Some in-depth reading to get through tonight, methinks…
Softly, softly, patchy monkey
by TheFAQQer on Mar.02, 2009, under W**k
Today’s struggle is finally getting round to patching my Oracle 11i instance. It’s never been patched (maybe they should have done that as a film – it can’t have been worse than this drivel), so should take a while – taking it from 11.5.0 up to 11.5.10.
I’ve also never done any eBusiness Suite patching before, so it’s all an experience. I didn’t even know how to run it until a few minutes ago, and then found out that it has to be in Maintenance Mode before it can run. Then I found out that it takes a while to create the catalog the first time (since it’s never had any patches applied). And that when I installed it, I’d renamed “grep” to “egrep” as per my instructions, which didn’t work.
And now, all I can see is list after list after list of errors scrolling past the screen saying “unresolved external” something – it’s going too quickly to be able to catch any of it.
Oh dear 
At least I took a snapshot of the virtual machine before I started patching….
I wonder why…
by TheFAQQer on Feb.27, 2009, under Web stuff
…this blog is a target for spam comments.
No ideas how / why they get targetted, but this one does, and yet my work blog doesn’t. Not that I’m complaining, you understand, I just wonder about these things some times.
Drivel Stats – 16-DEC-2008
by TheFAQQer on Jan.17, 2009, under Drivel, stats
OK, so it’s taken me a while (and a gentle prod) to get the stats updated, but here they are as of 16th December 2008 9am. Qualifying criteria is that the poster must have > 100 TPD posts (although if I made that higher, it would be much earier for me to reformat the stats to show here….)
Ordered by TPD posts:
User TPDs Non-LR Drivel Ratio %age Drivel BrilloPad 18412 10844 1.697897455 62.93% zeitghost 14962 14717 1.016647415 50.41% cailin maith 11217 3735 3.003212851 75.02% Diver 11024 7141 1.543761378 60.69% DS23 10001 2293 4.361535107 81.35% TheFaQQer 8668 6583 1.316724897 56.84% BrowneIssue 8564 830 10.31807229 91.16% NickFitz 8261 2666 3.098649662 75.60% FiveTimes 6713 1287 5.216006216 83.91% Bear 5570 1078 5.166975881 83.78% voodooflux 5230 2039 2.564982835 71.95% El_Diablo 4256 666 6.39039039 86.47% DiscoStu 2244 2477 0.905934598 47.53% Jog On 2239 1390 1.610791367 61.70% Fortune Green 2215 478 4.633891213 82.25% PRC1964 1532 1608 0.952736318 48.79% n5gooner 1290 2250 0.573333333 36.44% HeliCraig 1243 503 2.471172962 71.19% Sockpuppet 1216 4310 0.282134571 22.01% realityhack 1153 4179 0.275903326 21.62% Troll 1058 5083 0.208144796 17.23% DaveB 1048 4141 0.253078966 20.20% Xenophon 1006 6107 0.164729 14.14% AndyGarbs 901 49 18.3877551 94.84% oracleslave 839 5456 0.15377566 13.33% RichardCranium 734 717 1.023709902 50.59% Churchill 701 9874 0.070994531 6.63% EqualOpportunities 546 1304 0.418711656 29.51% The Lone Gunman 540 5604 0.096359743 8.79% BA to the Stars 513 721 0.711511789 41.57% zara_backdog 490 629 0.779014308 43.79% KathyWoolfe 466 1529 0.304774362 23.36% Gonzo 434 1493 0.290689886 22.52% AtW 390 12172 0.032040749 3.10% Moscow Mule 382 4008 0.095309381 8.70% ElectricChair 319 183 1.743169399 63.55% alreadypacked 306 1257 0.243436754 19.58% Moose423956 300 1657 0.181050091 15.33% Clownio 299 200 1.495 59.92% kali 293 271 1.081180812 51.95% Ardesco 280 4529 0.061823802 5.82% MrsGoof 279 1671 0.166965889 14.31% threaded 234 5521 0.042383626 4.07% Katie 203 99 2.050505051 67.22% wendigo100 203 6458 0.03143388 3.05% TheBigYinJames 195 1437 0.135699374 11.95% SallyAnne 190 6706 0.028332836 2.76% Let-Me-In 188 735 0.255782313 20.37% Zorba 163 815 0.2 16.67% fzbucks 160 353 0.45325779 31.19% Bumfluff 158 687 0.229985444 18.70% cykophysh39 146 305 0.478688525 32.37% janey 136 723 0.188105118 15.83% RandyW 130 249 0.522088353 34.30% ControlG 125 89 1.415730337 58.41% tay 123 2502 0.049160671 4.69% sasguru 121 11860 0.010202361 1.01% cojak 115 2144 0.05363806 5.09% darmstadt 114 1245 0.091566265 8.39% chef 112 1923 0.05824233 5.50% Advocate 102 609 0.167487685 14.35%
Ordered by Drivel Ratio:
User TPDs Non-LR Drivel Ratio %age Drivel AndyGarbs 901 49 18.3877551 94.84% BrowneIssue 8564 830 10.31807229 91.16% El_Diablo 4256 666 6.39039039 86.47% FiveTimes 6713 1287 5.216006216 83.91% Bear 5570 1078 5.166975881 83.78% Fortune Green 2215 478 4.633891213 82.25% DS23 10001 2293 4.361535107 81.35% NickFitz 8261 2666 3.098649662 75.60% cailin maith 11217 3735 3.003212851 75.02% voodooflux 5230 2039 2.564982835 71.95% HeliCraig 1243 503 2.471172962 71.19% Katie 203 99 2.050505051 67.22% ElectricChair 319 183 1.743169399 63.55% BrilloPad 18412 10844 1.697897455 62.93% Jog On 2239 1390 1.610791367 61.70% Diver 11024 7141 1.543761378 60.69% Clownio 299 200 1.495 59.92% ControlG 125 89 1.415730337 58.41% TheFaQQer 8668 6583 1.316724897 56.84% kali 293 271 1.081180812 51.95% RichardCranium 734 717 1.023709902 50.59% zeitghost 14962 14717 1.016647415 50.41% PRC1964 1532 1608 0.952736318 48.79% DiscoStu 2244 2477 0.905934598 47.53% zara_backdog 490 629 0.779014308 43.79% BA to the Stars 513 721 0.711511789 41.57% n5gooner 1290 2250 0.573333333 36.44% RandyW 130 249 0.522088353 34.30% cykophysh39 146 305 0.478688525 32.37% fzbucks 160 353 0.45325779 31.19% EqualOpportunities 546 1304 0.418711656 29.51% KathyWoolfe 466 1529 0.304774362 23.36% Gonzo 434 1493 0.290689886 22.52% Sockpuppet 1216 4310 0.282134571 22.01% realityhack 1153 4179 0.275903326 21.62% Let-Me-In 188 735 0.255782313 20.37% DaveB 1048 4141 0.253078966 20.20% alreadypacked 306 1257 0.243436754 19.58% Bumfluff 158 687 0.229985444 18.70% Troll 1058 5083 0.208144796 17.23% Zorba 163 815 0.2 16.67% janey 136 723 0.188105118 15.83% Moose423956 300 1657 0.181050091 15.33% Advocate 102 609 0.167487685 14.35% MrsGoof 279 1671 0.166965889 14.31% Xenophon 1006 6107 0.164729 14.14% oracleslave 839 5456 0.15377566 13.33% TheBigYinJames 195 1437 0.135699374 11.95% The Lone Gunman 540 5604 0.096359743 8.79% Moscow Mule 382 4008 0.095309381 8.70% darmstadt 114 1245 0.091566265 8.39% Churchill 701 9874 0.070994531 6.63% Ardesco 280 4529 0.061823802 5.82% chef 112 1923 0.05824233 5.50% cojak 115 2144 0.05363806 5.09% tay 123 2502 0.049160671 4.69% threaded 234 5521 0.042383626 4.07% AtW 390 12172 0.032040749 3.10% wendigo100 203 6458 0.03143388 3.05% SallyAnne 190 6706 0.028332836 2.76% sasguru 121 11860 0.010202361 1.01%
