Random thoughts... 2004/3

2004-03-28

Musical Mystery

One of my most favourite bands created this site as part of the promotional campaign for their latest and greatest album.

tHE mUSICAL mYSTERY.... Oops, caps lock was on... The Musical Mystery quiz contains a number of rounds. Currently released are rounds 1 to 8:

  1. General knowledge
  2. Around the world
  3. Everyday objects
  4. Music
  5. Sport
  6. TV & film
  7. Miscellany
  8. Brain pain

The questions are not trivial (and thus: fun to answer :-).

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2004-03-26

Powerful quote...

I love being alive and will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. I will seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.

--Duane Allman

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2004-03-24

How to design unmanageable and insecure systems...

As we all know, it is actually in nobody's interest that any system (be it software, infrastructure or something else) we design and implement is secure, simple and easy to maintain. For reasons of job security and status elevation, insecure, complex and unmanageable systems deserve our undivided loyalty. Because of this, we need to do anything within our powers to build new systems with similar properties and to extend and complicate existing systems even further....

Full article here.

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2004-03-14

Proven technology at Schiphol

While walking at Schiphol airport yesterday, one of the train notice boards looked like this:


Click here for a larger image.
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2004-03-09

Technote #1

When configuring a MySQL V4 data source in WebSphere 5.x, specify "com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource" as the implementation classname, because otherwise you get message "DSRA8101E".
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2004-03-02

Buitenlanders...

Dutch language entry

In mijn woonplaats struikel je over de buitenlanders. Het gaat wellicht wat ver om te zeggen dat je er gek van wordt, maar er is in ieder geval geen ontkomen aan....

Artikel...

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