Monday turned out to be the day that customer realised that next week is Christmas. Therefore, we were busy, extremely busy.
Then we had a power spike/brownout/thingy.
First, the database server went down. This server is also the logon server for the network. The UPS didn’t, and the raid system wasn’t, then the filesystem stopped. It took me until 1am to (gingerly) retrieve data from the server.
Then the network became a notwork…why? Because the logon server was non-existant, and therefore nobody could be authenticated. The intervening time until 1am was spent patching the network together so it could be accessed the next day.
Also during the power thing, an essential machine became inactive, due to a particular part siezing. This was Bad.
Then another machine broke down.
Then another lost hydraulic pressure.
Then we lost water pressure.
*Then*, then we got busy with a crapload of pre-xmas work dropping on our laps.
So that was my Monday.
I need a holiday.
From today’s Dilbert, by Sourpuss:
“People say the glass is half full. But they don’t say of what.”
These are the voyages of my DVD player as I start my collection of the Star Trek DVD sets.
I’ve instructed my parents, and come to an arrangement with my wife, that Star Trek DVD box sets are legal tender for gifts.
Season 2 of TNG was first, for my birthday yesterday, and there will be more to come.
Also, Stargate SG1 box sets are only about $50. They’ll be on the list too.
…where big-balled men can take the piss out of themselves, a Video is made.
Pandora is a part of the Music Genome Project. It’s a nifty little player that does what other have done, I suppose, in that it suggests song similar to ones you tell it you like.
You can create a favourites list as well.
Sound quality is great, but at the moment it’s a little stop-start. Could be other reasons for that tho.
Testing out a gallery plugin for wordpress, hopefully there will be a picture at the end of this post…
melbourne/melbourne_museum.jpg
Ah, those happy words.
The layout is, at the time of posting, the default. I’ll look into changing it, but not too much, because it looks good, I think.
That’s a new one. Either my blogroll service is compromised, or my cache file (if I still use that method, I forget) is world-writable and someone found it and wrote over it.
Either way, it’s kinda funny, but very smart, since it appears on the front of almost every blog, and is therefore likely to be trawled by google.
In other news, yeah I made a post. Don’t faint.
UPDATE: Yeah, it’s farked…
