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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.

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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
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By ReallyEvilCanine (Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 07:48:36 AM EST) A Day in the Life, Death-by-PowerPoint, SSO, LOL What, training, pie (all tags)
Text Adventure Games

Remember in the olden days how the only graphics you got with a game were the box design? Infocom made some killer games, my favourite being Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What I wasn't so thrilled about were some of the steps you had to take in an exact order. Do any one thing wrong and you'd only find out far too late in the game, forcing you to start over and once again order the beers and peanuts and sandwich. If you didn't take the junk mail with you, you were fucked up in the Vogon ship and couldn't get the Babel fish.

Corporate games are no different, except that the plot's not nearly as amusing.

Poll: What's worse?
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Region Locking

That Citrix training I was promised? Yeah, it's right there with that advancement I was also promised. And the raise. There's Citrix training to be had, but not here, nosiree. It's too expensive here in Germany. Citrix offers training all over the world, even in Bulgrohungria. Do you see where this is going? I did as soon as my manager Vera mentioned it.

Sweet poll.
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