Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Riding on metaphors

  1. The disaster struck like a tidal wave ...
  2. the problem clung firmly like a leech - too stubborn to let go.

Anyway - welcome to the 6th day of december 2006.
For valucard, it was a day with its typical challenges.
It was the best of days & the worst of days with challenges that had us (us meaning: Valucard IT Staff) standing together like it was somebody's funeral.
Our database went down and there was no available redundancy - there was then the added option or should I say threat that meant that we could, may or might lose data - mission critical data....

That fact alone sent shivers down the spines of many - imagine a problem that made a good number people of the IT department skip bed to spend the night proposing to a server rack of all things...

"Please could u just start up?"
"NO!"
"just act as if u wanted to start up?"
"Nooo..."

This was a clear case of when anything bad can happen it will and normally at the worst possible time.

We asked questions that seemed to go nowhere - we pondered and thought...
Alas as with all things that are based on knowledge - u know only what you've learnt or have the necessary experience to deal with or have inferred - okay throw in a dose of luck when you're close to the truth - so close infact that you could be neighbors...
If not for the HP support engineers who sold and support the damn server rack with everything on it...

We were exposed to the real meaning of the word: Mission Critical
It was a hard lesson well learned.

On to other matters...

Its wednesday - the midweek.
Can't wait for the ever elusive friday and yet when it finally comes round - it just a brief weekend of two days and you're up again - fighting for your daily bread...

It's just 19 days to christmas - it really depends on the mood you find yourself in...
Me - the season died a long time ago in my childhood but I wish it would come back...
I actually miss those days.

That ladies and gentlemen is the real world - step back, brace your backs and have your heads chopped off...

Just felt like venting...

hope u all have a nice wednesday, 6th of December 2006 - hopefully it was better than mine.
As they say: if it doen't kill you - it only makes you stronger (or more ill...)
Regards


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