Fun week!

We I have just about had it with wordpress.  It is so much easier to keep up with other’s blogs on blogger that I am very close to pulling up stumps and shifting over there.  I have created an account the only problem being that Nautilus and Nautilis are taken so I had to make it tonyzilla.  I tried BigT, Tasauraus, Tzilla and they were all taken.

I’ve had a bit of a hell week this week.  It started Monday, first day back from holidays and our Sydney site containing the computer room had had a power failure over the weekend and the generator had failed to kick in.  My Sydney I.T. collegue that looks after our servers and networks was on holidays so I had to try and get everything up and running remotely.

I got home Monday night to find both my wife and Sophasaurus had picked up my cold and so I had to pitch in and do what I could to help our there.

Tuesday, still having internet issues after the power failure.  I rang a consultant we use for some help and he was at home having recently had his appendix out.   We thought we fixed the problem, but we were wrong.  So then I rang our Sydney I.T. guy that is on holidays.  Thankfully he answered but then said he would have to ring back in about half an hour as he was about to get on a jet ski.

Anyway, long story short the problem turned out to be a dns issue that our ISP was having on one specific line.  Impossible to diagnose remotely as I really needed to plug directly into the modem to eliminate routers and proxys.  I ended up getting the Sydney I.T. guy to come in Wednesday and Thursday to find the problem, implement a work around and then restore the old settings once the ISP fixed their issue.  Poor bastard.

I think I will have a couple of beers and a scotch or two tonight!