Sing a little song...

So I was driving in to work today and the radio had this report of a woman named Susan Boyle who went on a talent show and surprised everyone on the show with how well she could sing. Take a look for yourself, awesome performance.

Easter Eggs!

A list from Computer World of neat Easter Eggs in software.

Some neat ones:

In Firefox type either "about:robots" or "about:mozilla" in the URL bar.

In Open Office Calc (the spread sheet program). Type =game() and then respond to it's question with =GAME("StarWars").

If you're running Ubuntu for your computers operating system. Hit ALT-F2 and type "free the fish".

A nagging buzz.

So for a while now our horse hasn't liked being put out in the paddock. Found out why today. No wonder she was nagging us to stay in.

Great Red Shrinking Spot

Apparently Jupiter's "Great Red Spot" is shrinking. They say it'll be circular around 2040. Check out the details here!

*Cues the black obelisk* It'd be kinda funny if that spot was a lite fuse all along set to ignite Jupiter in to a new star.

Thank God thats over...

It was a blast, I learned quite a bit about Oracle PL/SQL and web programming, where Banner is going in regards to Java and Flex. Scripting goodies with Perl and shell scripting, and working with XML in PL/SQL. Pardon me while I saw some logs now on my own bed.

Day 3

.. for me and the conference has officially kicked off. The keynote speech was given by Maya Angelou and now I have visions of cloud computers with rainbows. I really enjoyed her speech. :)

SungGard Summit Precon Day 2

Today we covered some more complexed topics in Banner web development. Today was more interesting then yesterday for me. I actually learned how to setup a table form and process it with PL/SQL. Basically I can now present someone with a web form that lets them edit multiple records at once and save the multiple record changes all at the same time. I also learned more about the underlying tables Banner uses.

So yeah today was great and I feel like the Greatest American Hero after he found the book on how to use his super suit. :)