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It is Friday

By Merekat (Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 09:42:16 AM EST) (all tags)

And the following lies between me and the weekend, and holidays:

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The big Brown mess we're in - Part 1

By DullTrev (Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 09:36:00 AM EST) politics, Brown, Labour, trust, fun loving cowwqas. (all tags)

This is a personal view of the past year, coloured by emotion. This is from memory, so the timelines may be mixed and confused, and facts may be completely wrong. I don't care. This one is about the visceral side of politics, about my emotional response to all this.

A year ago, I wrote a lament for socialism. Brown had secured the leadership of the Labour Party without an election, and so became Prime Minister. I predicted he would be the same as Blair, only with different presentation skills. Well, I suppose he tried to be the same as Blair, but his lack of presentation skills of any sort scuppered that.

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Poem of the Day: "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus

By Beechwood 45789 (Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 08:19:55 AM EST) (all tags)

"A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles."

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A Day in the Life

By ReallyEvilCanine (Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 06:45:32 AM EST) A Day in the Life, WTF, Nazi jokes, databases, training, pie (all tags)

Training II: LOL Nazis

So I'm sitting through another day of Stuff I Already Know and the teacher, a nice enough Genoan guy who mangles both German and English without prejudice is going over the new syntax and abilities in 11g. We're dropping tables but wait! There's a foreign key! What to do?

My response didn't go over so well.

x-posted to da brog.

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A month

By jimgon (Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 10:43:05 PM EST) (all tags)

It's been a month since I last dropped in at HuSi. I thought it was a couple weeks. I guess I've been busy.

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I can has cheezcat

By ana (Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 05:31:37 PM EST) critters (all tags)

Apparently we're the crazy queer cat people.

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A Day inthe Life

By ReallyEvilCanine (Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 02:47:48 PM EST) A Day in the Life, WTF, training, Oracle, databases, Citrix, fuckwits, pie (all tags)

I CAN HAZ TRANEING

"Dog, your training has been approved."
"Citrix? Finally??"
"No, Oracle. DBA path.
"Umm... "

Poll: Preferred database
x-posted to da brog.

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``It's been a long time since I saw someone check their blind spot before merging onto the freeway''

By lm (Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 12:42:19 PM EST) (all tags)

`I check my blind spot all the time.'

``Well, how often do I see you drive on the freeway?''

`Never.'

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The girl in the park

By spacejack (Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 12:40:20 PM EST) (all tags)

She sat down next to me in the park whilst I was catching some rays on the weekend, reading the last pages of Friday.

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Tequila Mockingbird

By Bob Abooey (Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 11:20:42 AM EST) (all tags)

The B.A.D.^tm

Sniffing more glue than you since 1978...

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Next 10 >>

-	Tea... with treacle. And limes! Always limes!	9%
-	There's that thing you do with your eyebrow that makes all the children's bellies glow, could you do that round 4:30 or so? I got a girl coming by.	0%
-	The fearsome aqueous plants know who you are and what you've done. I suggest you start running. Tonight, son.	45%
-	"Erratically," they said, as though there were some other way to say it, "we cannot believe we're speaking in unison!"	27%
-	Two spoonfuls please.. right on my bum.	18%

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