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I've been busy.
This picture represents how I felt at the end of the first week.
Week one, the fun one, was from March 17th to March 23rd. Claudine and I spent six nights in England. We spend the days there too. Five of 'em. We spent two days in London and then went on to Manchester. We had a great time. We did some touristy things in London and then I played golf in Manchester while Claudine basically relaxed. I've got a few back entries that I need to insert pictures into before posting them. But I will put them up.
This picture represents how I felt at the end of the second week.
Week two was crap week. First a little background. My boss was leaving for a week of vacation the same week I was going to be gone. He wanted to know if there was any way that I could give him e-mail access through his HP Jornada. I figured I could set up our Exchange Outlook Web Access so that he could get his e-mail through a browser. Well I talked to our ISP to have them open up the port on the firewall to allow this to happen. I specifically asked whether this would pose any problem AT ALL. Nope, they said, it should be fine. Well, it wasn't fine. Sometime during the weekend before I left, our Exchange server crashed and crashed hard. So when I got back, I had a horrific mess on my hands. I could everything on the server running again but I couldn't reconstruct the log files to restore all the mailboxes. I pulled all the right files off the backup tapes but Exchange wouldn't accept them as the proper files. And during a frenzied time like this, is exactly the time when everyone else becomes incredibly annoying. "Will the e-mail be up soon?" "What's happening to our e-mail?" "Can we send e-mail yet?" SHUUUUUT UUUUUUUHHHHHHP! By Thursday, I just wiped out everything and installed fresh. I made new mailboxes for everyone. Then for everyone who had offline folders, I converted them into .pst files and then re imported their mail into the new mailboxes. I think I may set up everyone's Outlook configuration with offline folders so that I can have a second wave of backup in case this crap happens again.
Since all this happened last week, I just didn't feel like sitting in front of a computer posting entries. It didn't stop me from sitting in front of a computer playing Links 2001 and Sims: Hot Date. Sorry about that.
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