Yea, that's my worst question as well. You always have to say something like "Sometimes I am reluctant to delegate work to other team members" or other vague management-talk. Of course, you could always say your weakness is the correct spelling of the word 'weakness'.... :laugh::laugh: John[^]

Yes, I used to read Debka - But then realised the Weekly World News was a more reliable news source. John[^]

It forgets the most important one; "Do not run away from home to meet a stranger who has booked plane tickets and a hotel room in a different country" :laugh: John[^]

An interesting project. And remarkably easy to implement, especially for hungry students. Required components; 1) A mobile phone 2) One of these[^] 3) Roll of sellotape Steps; a) Sellotape item 2) to back of mobile phone b) Switch on both devices John[^]

Roger Wright wrote: I'm getting a huge amount of spam that contains entirely irrelevant material as content, such as: prototypic rapacious gibbs shoal You're calling prototypic rapacious gibbs shoals 'irrelevant'? - Do you not realise the importance of these shoals? :laugh: John[^]

I've had a few of these moments over the past 15 years, and they generally fall into one of these categories; 1) Realising you've deleted/updated something you shouldn't have JUST as you press the enter key 2) Locking up a production server 3) Listening to the Hard Disk fail on a (non backed-up) PC or server :rolleyes: Whichever one it is, the feeling is always the same. First, your heart starts racing. Then the adrenalin rush hits you, followed by that light-headed 'I'm not really here' feeling. I always find the 'I'm not really here' feeling helps matters. I think it's a natural defence mechanism. :laugh: John[^]

Rob Manderson wrote: Please! No spoilers. Or if you must post spoilers please warn us in the subject line so we can skip over. They all live happily ever after. ;P John[^]

Here I use 'TransactionTypeCode' of either 'CRT' or 'DBT' - This gives the flexibility of accomodating other transaction types in the future, like 'ADJ' for adjustment (or whatever) John[^]

Paul Watson wrote: And all US development is bug free, on time and under budget, right? I don't know, I've never worked on one of these types of projects... :laugh: John[^]

Anyone who's worried about losing their job to outsourcing, fear not! - It seems a whole new industry has sprung up thanks to our offshore friends; Fixing bugs in over-budget badly written outsourced projects! :-D The Hidden Costs of IT Outsourcing[^] "Keith Franklin, president of Empowered Software Solutions in Burr Ridge, Ill., loves offshore outsourcing . It means more work for his 40-person company. Just last year, ESS, which specializes in developing applications for Microsoft's .Net platform for Web services, earned $500,000 in revenues from fixing buggy software written in India. It took ESS five months to repair a glitch-filled application for a Web portal. Most pages on the site weren't connected, turning updating into a nightmare. Some code was missing."..... John[^]

Hang on, let me get this right. You paid $330 for a pair of earphones? :rolleyes: Let's hope you don't lose them on the tube! :laugh: John[^]

David Stone wrote: Jeez...I get really sick and tired of hearing this crap. Have you ever written a big program that didn't exactly work correctly? Have you ever had an error in your code? I think the real issue is that the exception trace is visible for all and sundry to see. They should have the configuration setup on a production box to direct all errors to a 'friendly' error page, and log the trace to the event log. Also, the fact you can see the sourcecode indicates it's running in debug mode - Which affects performance (as well as being questionable from a security viewpoint) At least they're not exposing server names or sprocs in the code... :rolleyes: John[^]

Shog9 wrote: $16 isn't bad for a good steak either, but if McD's started charging $16 for a double cheese burger, there might be some complaint. Considering that a good steak and a McD's burger are two totally different products. I mean, the McD's burger doesn't actually contain any real meat for a start... :laugh: Secondly, people who eat good steaks are actually aware of what they're eating. ;P John[^]

Roger Wright wrote: There's one in Ontario... Damn, I'm going to London myself at the end of the month. I'd better check my tickets to make sure I have the right country... :rolleyes: John[^]

JoeJoeMa wrote: so, i love the idea of open source. even use some of it. but how do you make money? Easy; 1) Release all your source code, ensuring you have some clever small print in the agreement, and patents on the important parts. 2) Wait 5 years to ensure the code proliferates 3) Sue everyone for breach of patent/copyright/whatever :laugh: John[^]

London 'UK' ? - How many other Londons are there? ;P John[^]

I got the article in two seperate emails this morning, and the little picture of Dubya with the muppet in another mail! :rolleyes: This could turn into a fiasco like the 'betting on terror' controversy. People couldn't believe it wasn't an Aprils Fools until they withdrew the proposal a day later... :~ John[^]

I just got my newsletter a few minutes ago. So you spoiled the ending for me. You really should have put spoiler space on that message Paul... :laugh: John[^]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3200019.stm[^] Okay, they've 'downplayed' the risk of it hitting us. But what I can't work out is this bit; "The chances of a catastrophe are likely to become even slimmer once more measurements of the asteroid's orbit have been made." How can the 'chances be slimmer' just cause they have more accurate calculations? - Surely they mean the probability calculation will more accurate. Or are they just trying to stop mass panic? :laugh: John[^]

Davy Mitchell wrote: just as full backup starting... Bah.... Let me guess. You decided to do a full backup when that funny clicking sound started to get more noticable... ;P John[^]