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New National Anthem for Northern Ireland

I would like to propose a new National Anthem for Northern Ireland. After the incredible success of Ireland's Call written by Phil Coulter. Ireland's Call has not only been used extensively by Ireland's Rugby men but also by Hockey, Cricket, Rugby League and A1 GP teams.

My choice of a general song for a National Anthem of Northern Ireland will raise a few eyebrows:

'So come on Northern Ireland -Come on!'

'there is a whole lotta work to be done!'

'you can make it in the end -with a little bit of help from your friends'

'So come on Northern Ireland -Come On!'

Repeat to fade

A big shout out must go to the 'IDB' for composing such a masterpiece and of course to the girl with the incredible natural breasts featured in the advertisement. If she is still about -perhaps we could get a wee cup of Punjana sometime soon ;-)

Philip Wilson Leader of Men

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Programming blunders exposed!

 

Throughout the development and programming world, mistakes happen every day. These mistakes help us learn valuable lessons. But they can also make humour for others.

Some professional developers got together on Twitter, thanks to Smashing Magazine, to reveal their biggest mistakes.

Here are some of the favourites:

Whoops... I deleted it!
"I sent $10,000 worth of product to a customer while testing an ordering portal."

"Worst programming mistake: editing off a live server and then uploading an old version of the website. All files lost!"

I did back it up. I did back it up. Did I?!

“I moved a dynamic, CMS-contained website across to a new server. Forgot to back up, then deleted templates in the process. D’oh!”

"Mistake: not backing up a compiled Flash slideshow, replacing it, then realizing the new version was completely broken.”
 

Click. Click. Print. Whoops!

“Mistake: having 20,000 cards printed that didn’t fit into a lanyard card holder”

“I dropped an ‘L’ from the word ‘public’ in a school prospectus (and website). Honest mistake!”

“I managed to drop an ‘m’ off ‘millimeters’ in InDesign. Ended up with an 88-meter-wide business card. Schoolboy!"

And upload...

“Accidentally leaving things like ‘Mooooo’ and ‘Baaaaa’ in code that has gone live!”

“I removed the ID from the ‘Submit payment’ button, and the website failed to take bookings for six hours. Lost £20,000.”

“One time I left an unkind phrase about a client in the comments, and they found it later on.”

Finally...

“Used Comic Sans for something serious.”

“How about 90,000 alert emails sent to four people over one weekend (myself, a colleague and website owners) = 360,000 emails.”

“Deleted the shopping cart table from a live website instead of deleting one of the records in the table.”