Weird day.

[lance_sibley]

Work was kind of strange today, at least in my experience. People who have worked for ISPs or hosting companies may have experienced this before, but it was all new to me...

The company I work for, in addition to doing web development, hosts websites. One of our clients is B'nai B'rith, the world's oldest Jewish service organization. Well, what with everything that's going on at the moment with Israel, their website was overloaded today. My boss' partner thinks that it was a denial of service attack by anti-Semites, though I suppose it's also possible that they were just getting a lot of hits due to the latest events between Israel and Hamas.

Unfortunately, my development webspace is on the same server as B'Nai B'rith's website, which means that from 1pm onwards, I couldn't do any work. I couldn't save any files to the server, and I couldn't even use the website I'm working on (I'm still trying to finish the user manual for the content management system, but I found a bug in it while writing the documentation for the image gallery plugin and was trying to fix it).

Around 6:30, my boss' partner (since my boss is away all week visiting his in-laws) told me to go home and not bother coming in tomorrow. Hopefully the problem is fixed by Friday.I was awfully bored until he told me to go home.

So I got home around 8:15, made dinner, made my and Eric's hotel reservation for Chattacon (I get to see him live and in person in less than a month! *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *grin*), and called him for our nightly chat.

With this unexpected day off, I'll be able to go to the post office (I have to mail a letter relating to Anticipation and my pre-reg form for Chattacon - they don't have online pre-registration (!!!)), watch the BSG S4 webisodes, and maybe even do some long-overdue cleaning in the bathroom.

I have an invitation to a New Year's Eve gathering, but if I were to go, I wouldn't get to spend NYE with my sweetie, so I decided to stay home tomorrow night. Though we might not make it to 12 o'clock because he has to be at work for 7AM on New Year's Day. (Ick.)

Comments

[gurudata.livejournal.com]

Hiho,

In my current role at Telus, if I found that development was going on on a server that is also used for prod, I'd have to bust somebody. :)

Cu,
Andrew

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

We're not quite as big as Telus. ;)

[aprilsnark.livejournal.com]

fyi... last year Chattacon's pre-reg had a serious problem with their at-con computers, causing the pre-reg line to be up to 2 hours.

The reg line was short, and only 15 minutes. Totally worth the extra $10, as I hadn't pre-reged. I gambled on that $10 being worth it again.

Even though I know someone who'll be working reg, who says there "probably" won't be similar problems to last year. He also said that since he knows me, I could just skip the line, but that would be *uber-wrong* and I'd feel terrible, which is probably another reason I'm chosing to pay the extra $10.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I thought about it, but since Eric had already mailed in his pre-reg, I figured I may as well do the same. At least we can stand in line together. :)

And good for you for not taking advantage of your connections. :)

[minotaurs.livejournal.com]

I have finally gotten into BSG. I've been holding on to the eps since it started, but every time I tried to watch it, I kept getting bogged down by my trouble with the whole humanoid Cylon thing (it just bugs me, ok).

But with the show about to finish up, I figured it was time to give it another go, and this time it's hooked me. I've watched up to 2x03 in the last week.

So... do we ever find out who left Adama the note about there only being 12 Cylon models at the end of mini-series?

And WTF is up with the start of S2? Nobody seems to have a problem with Adama basically staging a military coup? WTF?