Posted by andy in : Humour on April 27, 2005. There are no responses »Michael Thorpe told me about this wonderful explanation of two stage commits (from the book Transaction Processing : Concepts and Techniques):
The chapter on two phase commit compared it to a wedding with the minister being the commit point. “do you take this man” (vote to commit) – yes, then PREPARE to commit, “do you take this woman” (vote to commit) – yes, then PREPARE to commit. “Anyone out there have a good reason not to do this?” no, then “I pronounce you man and wife” – transaction is committed.
Posted by andy in : Humour on August 10, 2004. There are no responses »Zohar Melamed has just pointed me at the highly entertaining http://thedailywtf.com/
Now added to my rss reader.
Posted by andy in : Humour on March 22, 2004. There are no responses »Chris Stevenson just told me a funny story (for me, not him).
He has recently moved from the UK to work in India. So he told his ISP to turn off his ADSL connection. Unfortunately, they kindly switched off CGI and deleted all his web content (with no backup) too. Bye bye blog.
Luckily (there is a happy end to this story), Google has cached his blog so he can recover the content. Phew. Hope his blog is back soon.
Now, I think I’ll just check my backup script…
Posted by andy in : Humour on March 2, 2004. There are no responses »This made me smile today.
Commenting on a complaint from a Mr Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North West gas said, “We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It’s possible Mr Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that destroyed his house.”
(The Daily Telegraph)
http://www.youngscot.org/lab/index.asp?id=5773&SR=374
