… about the software engineer who spent his birthday analysing a 1GB Java heap dump for a memory leak?

Nope, didn’t find it that funny myself 🙁

On a more positive note, if you find  yourself in a similar position then I can recommend that you try out a useful tool called the Memory Dump Diagnostic for Java (MDD4J) available as part of the IBM Support Assistant. Here’s a DeveloperWorks article explaining all.