We had a co worker that we once pranked by doing the old flip screen trick (ctrl+alt+down keys if I remember rightly). Except when he returned to see that his windows desktop had been rotated, he physically picked up the monitor and tried to balance it on its head to correct it. Nevertheless it subsequently fell over and we pointed and laughed.

I learnt to program by chucking myself in front of any opportunity or any challenge in my work place. Then I used various languages to solve them.

Oracle. Why companies still pay the licence fee for that heavyweight shite I'll never know.

Always be open minded to others ideas. Never get your head stuck up your own arsehole.

Root/password on public facing servers nationwide :D

Top 10 database engines on db-engine... I never knew the top 3 were so far ahead of the game, if that site is anything to go by.