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Hi Howard,
as reagrds changing your name to 'et al' - hey, I read your chapter on
indexes first !!!
That book is so badly titled it is unbelievable - it should be "Oracle
for everyone, even you lot who think you already know it - and if you
beginners think you're getting of with it, think again" - except it
might need to be truncated a bit to fit on the cobver !
As for A levele - I'm afraid edukashun in the UK has gone the way of most things - too many 'right ons', do gooders & bl**dy social workers have had their finger in the pie, and it's all f*cked up now. I'd hate to be a student today. Last year, A level passes C and above were 94%. This year, they were not allowed to do the same, so they downgraded to keep the numbers steady - caused a major uproar which is continuing. (and I'm not talking about John Major & Edwina Curry here either !)
Another example of how times have changed, in Scotland I gaave up a perfectly good job as a Marine Engineer/GRP boat builder to go to college to do an SHND in computing - 5 days a week full time for two years. Today (in England anyway) it is 1 day a week day release for two years - only 20% of the work I had to do, it is a scandal. Half the kids on the streets now can't even write their own names properly.
It makes me so angry !
Cheers,
Norman.
Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.comReceived on Mon Sep 30 2002 - 05:47:36 CDT
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