Winging It

Last week the network started out down (only for 30 minutes people! ).

It also marked the beginning of the mass hardware upgrade here. 500+ people by Dec. 16!

Yeah. It’s been a long two days. It was a long last week, too, and we were only working out the kinks in the system. Now we’ve started fullscale upgrades.

Fortunately we aren’t doing hardware upgrades today, just re-installing 3rd party applications and putting out tiny fires from the ~50 people from Monday and Tuesday. At least that’s 10% done.

When the whole network is down for 30 minutes Monday morning…. well, lets say that it’s bad.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Angry SA passengers burn trains

I ask you, does this make any sense at all? I imagine a conversation going something like this:

Arsonist: “Why yes, this is our transport to and from work.”
Reporter: “Can you afford a car to get you to and from work instead?”
Arsonist: “No, I can’t afford a car.”
Reporter: “So what will you do now that you can’t get to work?”
Arsonist: “Err… uhhmmm… The government should do more for poor workers!”
Reporter: “Didn’t you just torch your own transport?”
Arsonist: “The government doesn’t want to acknolwedge our plight!”
Reporter: “The plight of those who torch their own means of feeding themselves and their families?”
Arsonist: <smiling> “Exactly, we need assistance.”

I’d go on, but the whole thing makes me want to kick humanity into space.

Heated bra aims to save the world

I don’t even know what to say to that. It’s currently on the BBC World News front page. Not the lead story (whew), but still…

Some days it pays to read the news. At least the UK news.

For all of you clamoring for pictures, they are available now.

Gallery

Or from the, erm, immortal “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead”

The dishes are done, dude!

Except I didn’t shoot my dishes with a shotgun.