Foddrick

A quick script to undo the change that suncorp made to their left menu with all the opening and closing sections. This makes all the menu items visible all the time as it used to be.

Here is a script that I originally found on http://www.arantius.com/article/gmail+action+links.
Unfortunately, gmail has changed since that script last worked and it doesn't seem to be actively maintained. I love this script and keep making changes to keep pace with googles changes to gmail. Here is my latest version which was working as at 1st August 2006.

Today I started getting ORA-1406 errors from VERY well tested code.
Not tested well enough it seems. Some OCI library code that I wrote to simplify the task of fetching data was getting ora-1406 errors.
It turns out that OCI (or the calls that I use) does not take into account the local character set when advising on the maximum size of a column. My local charset was UTF8 but the databases was USASCII. I hit an (erroneous) hi bit character and it exceeded the size that I had allocated. If anyone knows how to ask OCI for how many bytes a field needs taking into account your local characte

Just tried out nifty corners today and I have to say that I am quite impressed. Though I feel compelled to vent about this gotcha that held me up for a good hour. As hard as I tried, I couldn't make ie6 work if I tried to round a <li>. If anyone can prove me wrong, feel free.