Gaming

My newest game (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2) is by far one of the best FPS I've played in my many years of gaming. I will be buying Assassin's Creed 2 on friday and I've been waiting for this game since the first game was released. I plan also on picking up a copy of Dragon Age: Origins for christmas. I tend to finish games quickly so I end up buying others to keep myself from getting bored of the same games, thankfully however the game MW2 will keep me occupied for many months while I take out many other players online.
My weapons of choice in MW2 are a silenced Tar-21 with a slicenced striker as my sidearm. I use the scavenger, cold blooded and ninja perks to make myself invisible to radar, unheard and able to pick up ammo quite easily.
I also like using silenced FAL with a silenced striker and use the same perks as above.
My preferred sniper rifle is a M21 EBR with a thermal scope.
I tend to use a ACR when I feel like just taking down the enemy team by using as little ammo as possible because I use scavenger, stopping power and steady aim perks to make it even deadlier.

Interesting facts

Imagine an insect that is brainwashed by parasitic fungi (genus Cordyceps). This interesting fungi manipulates insect's brain forcing him to climb the plant or tree, and upon reaching to the top grows out of his head or body! Cordyceps also called Chinese caterpillar fungus, native to the Tibetan plateau in China. In human beings, it enters through the ears, germinates in the mind, causes the host to destroy rival communities, and exits via the mouth, and infects others. A Korean study of a related species of Cordyceps indicates that it has components that may inhibit coagulation, making it potentially beneficial in stroke and heart attack prevention. A hot water extract of the fungus appeared to stimulate the immune system. In other studies, which have reported that Cordyceps may be useful in treating Hepatitis B. A study from Thailand reported that Cordyceps nipponica might be of value in the treating malaria. Another review concluded that Cordyceps might be promising as a possible support for heart & lung function. Interesting fact is that Chinese Olympic athletes use this fungi to improve their performance and stamina. (Seems to work quite well for them, see all their gold medals that we don't have?)

So I learned that Cordyceps are highly beneficial to the human body. I've previously learned during Biology in secondary about that many ways in which fungi can be both beneficial and damaging to the human body. Some fungi will eat away at the cell tissue and replace it with it's own fake tissue, which tends to burst(dissolve) and then spread to other cells. This also occurs within blood cells which have been infected. It is however more deadly within the bloodstream because of the speed as to which it can spread throughout the body. It can reach the heart and other vital areas through the bloodstream e.g. the lungs, kidneys, liver and brain. It can cause a form of cardio arrest, which can pass unnoticed in the heart from scans because it. eats away at the underlying layer where the scan will only see it as a light area but compared to the rest of the heart it'll appear the same.

My job as and Oracle Applications 11i Developer.

I must have problem solving skills, can work well together with others and be able to provide leadership. I must be able to provide user support for the installed Oracle Applications Release 11i. I must be willing to design and devolop both custom Oracle Applications Interfaces and Oracle Applications Reports and Forms. I must also be able to bridge the gap between business and IT workers.

Personal Characteristics
-> Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
-> Highly motivated, with the ability to influence, lead and motivate others.
-> Demonstrate and deliver a high level of professonalism to both the company and staff members.
-> Have the ability to work on own initiative and deliver to set targets.
-> Have the ability to work with business representatives to determine exact requirements.
-> Enthusiastic and energetic personality with the ability to work within dynamic environment to consistently high standards.

Requirements
I was required to have the following experience and qualifications:
-> Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
-> Minimum 5 years Oracle Applications 11.5.10 (Manufacturing/Financials) experience.
-> Minimum 3 years Structured Software Development experience.
-> Minimum 3 years PL/SQL development experience.
-> Minimum 3 years experience Oracle 6i Forms/Reports experience.

It was preferred that I possessed experience in the following:
-> PRO*C
-> Oracle Portal
-> HTML
-> JavaScript
-> J Developer
-> XML
->Oracle 9iAS development and confriguration experience.

HTML and JavaScript are both used for creating web pages.

Oracle Portal
-> A framework for building portals and software development kits for building portlets.
-> Some standard portlets for use in Oracle Portal.
-> A content repository.

A web portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the standard search engine feature, web portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock prices, information, databases and entertainment. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether. Examples of public web portals are MSN, Yahoo and AOL.

Portlets are pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal. Portlets produce fragments of markup code that are aggregated into a portal page. Typically, following the desktop metaphor, a portal page is displayed as a collection of non-overlapping portlet windows, where each portlet window displays a portlet. Hence a portlet (or collection of portlets) resembles a web-based application that is hosted in a portal. Some examples of portlet applications are email, weather reports, discussion forums, and news.

Portlet standards are intended to enable software developers to create portlets that can be plugged in to any portal supporting the standards.

PRO*C
-> Is and embedded SQL programming language used by Oracle Datebase and Sybase SQL Server Database management systems.

HTML
-> Hyper Text Mark-Up Language
-> Is the predominant mark-up language for web pages.

JavaScript
-> Is a scripting language use to enable programmtic access to objects within both the client application and other applications.
-> Allows development of enhanced user interface and dynamic websites.

JDeveloper
-> Is a freeware IDE

XML
-> Extensible Mark-up Language.