What’s all this fuss about deleting yourself from Facebook and getting upset coz your tracks are still left on there. Of course your tracks are on there. If you’ve had a conversation with someone or they’ve copied some of your photos what do these people expect, for all this activity to be removed if the owning person removes themselves from FB. Those actions have been done and are part of history.

If someone has a bank account and decides to close it do they expect all of his records and money transactions to be removed. Ferggeddabowdit. Those money movements have been made and audited and can’t just be made to disappear. I’ve got a feeling some people have behaved inappropriately on Facebook and are embarrassed by their digital detritus and want to lose it.

A couple of months ago I raised a bug on some empty fields with IBM’s Datamirror software. The bug didn’t go far, just hung around for a few months while all and sundry hoped it would slope off of it’s own accord, or at least do the honorable thing and put a bullet between its eyes. Eventually someone kicked up some mess and sent it to IBM to see what they had to say about it.

Today someone told me there was a fix due from IBM. I asked whether it was a known bug and it wasn’t. Nobody that had ever used Datamirror had ever encountered it or if they had weren’t confident at aiming said bug at big blue. So my bug was fixed by some fresh IBM code and may even be lobbed out the door to all other Datamirror users Worldwide. That might do my reputation at work some good (Why does it need it? Ed).

Quote of the day ‘The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair’ Douglas Adams