This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
Enjoy!
There are some series of posts that go together. You can access them directly with the links below.
I thought I would just give you some update's on the fun of Busby's “Obscure Code”. AKA: The bane of the Internet.Update 1. After months of development, and testing we now have data files that meet the hundreds of requirements imposed on us by...
a.k.a Freelance Whoring A customer of where I work, who we will in the trend of this blog call “RedBack“, emailed me last night, unofficially and off the record. So its good I am protecting their identity :0) This customer has a server, but no...
Here is a Question. How much of the Internet’s Backbone is obsolete. Code that no one knows what it does or how it works? Let me give you an example: - I have recently been integrating my companies systems into several of the Major...
One of our customers recently moved half their business away from us to a BIGGER networking company for added security, better service, and to prevent having all their eggs in one basket. They had been looking into disaster recovery for a while,...
So at the weekly “Blame & Shame” meeting, it was mentioned that the SMS notifications of Server problems were possibly a bit excessive. The monitoring system sends out a notification of a problem every hour. If you happen to have your phone...
A strange thing happened to me on the way into the office this morning…. That almost sounds like the start of a cheesy joke. But. Seriously. Driving into work this morning I got into a game of chicken with a Magpie, and almost lost. (It ended in a...
Well today is Plaetpete’s last day in the office. So far we have spent most the morning moving furniture around the building, but are yet to discover where he has dug his escape tunnel. I have a theory he is being a pesky tricky ninja, and we’ll...
Well for once the BBC weather service got it correct. They said the morning’s commute traffic may be affected by the heavy storms, and it was! I left the house this morning as normal, started driving down the hill. I was thinking it was wet, it was...
You have to wonder about some people, and their problem solving abilities.. I work for an ISP, and our current main support person is off work with stress, and has been for over a month. The director in charge of support has also decided he has had...
You have to love customers who think they are better, cleverer, more skillful than yourself. Although you do have to ask yourself the question “If they are better than me, why are they paying me to do this work?” I just had several emails from a...