w00t :-D Yesterday I got my “Pro” medal for 500 points on OTN Forums I’d been intending to post a grumpy rant about OTN recently, but maybe I’ll postpone that for a few days now ;)

I have a couple of OTN forums bookmarked, and found that generally every few hours I get signed out and end up viewing them as Guest. I then have to click on sign in, enter password, etc. (Signing out this frequently is ridiculous, IMHO). I found that instead of using the direct URL of a forum, eg: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=378 if I use this form: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/adfAuthentication?success_url=/forum.jspa?forumID=378 then I end up signed in more often, and if I’ve been signed out then it goes straight to the login page and then through to the forum.

Why does Google more often than not return the korean (kr) version of OTN forums for a match, but not english? If I search Google for “Send notification:” “oracle.ons.Notification” the top hit is for kr.forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=650662 If you strip the kr from the URL you get this, which makes more sense given the locality when doing the search in Google. Only mildly irritating, but odd behaviour nonetheless