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[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

(I can get away with this because I've never identified the day job in this space)
to describe today as an eventful day at the office would be a tremendous understatement.  never before in my professional career have we:

• lost the domain
• had a server room fire

that's right, we lost the domain.  for an online company it's completely unthinkable.  it would be like having a bank miss its payroll, or if the Mint were to run out of pennies, or, or, ...

that's right, a server room fire.  just one component, and I was in there and managed to get it disconnected from electrical power and though I hustled it off the floor it was a damn shame that I resisted the temptation to chuck it into the duck pond.  it would have been unkind to them. 

we're going to have one heck of a time topping this come next week. 

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[(Anonymous)]

perchance the fireish incident was 'just a warmup' ?

a true bastard would be thinking 'is it the insurance money they're after, or an excuse to consolidate localish spaces?'

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

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> 'just a warmup'
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tee hee.  warm indeed. 
even without a direct identification of the outfit I really don't want to say much more in this space, but will admit to having more than a little concern about our DR preparedness.  one never has as much of it as one would like. 

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> a true bastard would be thinking 'is it the insurance money
> they're after,or an excuse to consolidate localish spaces?'
> 

as it happens I don't really have enough information to be in a position to comment on such speculations.  that would only come from somebody who has been obsessing on The Office (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/o/officethe_66602660.shtml) or spending too much time reading the Register's ongoing tech soap opera (http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh) where I finally learned about BOFH.