Monthly Archives: February 2007
Blogging Is Meant To Be Personal
Like most people, I read a lot of web sites and the majority of them I read because of their insight and personal opinion on any given topic. Of late, there have been a flurry of web sites that are … Continue reading
Akismet, Friends Forever
In the last five months, I have posted twice about the wonders of the free spam filtering service Akismet. Since the last installment, another ten weeks have pasted. In the last ten weeks, approximately 30,000 new spam messages have been … Continue reading
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
Today I came up against a very frustrating problem when writing some Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures and functions: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error When I first wrote the stored function in question, I was using VARCHAR2 types for storage … Continue reading
The ConTest, Anticlimactic Crap
Channel Ten launched their latest game show offering named The ConTest last week. Like all new game shows, The ConTest was hyped as the single greatest thing since sliced bread; unfortunately for Channel 10 – their latest TV show just … Continue reading
Google Image Labeler Included In Google Webmasters Tools
In September 2006, Google released a new utility in the form of a game named Google Image Labeler. The game aspect of the Google Image Labeler involves a pair of people. The contestants are chosen at random to play against … Continue reading