Happy Birthday Steve, 41 was a long time ago.

This http://www.navis-neptun.de/produkte/datenbank/1101b_e.html would be fine for my next birthday.

Data loss is a political hot potato in the UK at the moment. Government agencies have managed to lose personal data in all sorts of imaginative ways. The most recent...

I reckon the price in the UK is equivalent of $9.50 per US gallon for diesel, the price in France was, a couple of weeks ago, about 15% lower than...

In Oracle 7 (the last version I had dealings with) I think you had to use something like

TO_DATE(Char,Format,Param)

So you might have to use something like

TO_DATE(TO_CHAR(DATE_KK),'DD-MON-RR','YYYY') AS YEAR

This would be for...

I saw some CF bulbs at the weekend in a DIY store in the UK which claimed to be "dimming". Made by (I think Philips) and quite expensive $30 each.

Although I am in favour of energy sources which do not rely on fossil fuels from states which may not always be friendly, or crops grown on limited arable land...

I just missed have people around, even if I didn't have many conversations with them during the day. I found this an odd reaction as I grew up on a...