so today at work we found resolution to a strange network problem that’s persisted for days. we heard about it three days ago and it meant print jobs had been held up for almost a week. the issue was reaching critical mass. there were an increasing number of meetings. we were sniffing networks. bring interfaces up and down. rebooting servers. capturing packets for analysis. we were in conference calls coordinating our efforts. our problem server being down meant employees couldn’t trade stock! still, we could not reach the printers. we were getting so deep into debugging we decided to take ten steps back. concentrate on one server. simplify its configuration. i took a break from lunch.

i’m walking back to desk to find my supervisor laughing out loud. what’s up? “we rebooted the printers. now it’s all working again.”

doh.

a friend send me a link to this article, which i’ve made a copy of. it’s funny. and there’s a lot of truth to it.

we tried to think, which of our friends are introverts? we couldn’t name too many. most were in the middle or extroverted. is that by design?

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breathe deep the gathering gloom,
watch lights fade from every room.
bedsitter people look back and lament,
another day’s useless energy spent.
impassioned lovers wrestle as one,
lonely man cries for love and has none.
new mother picks up and suckles her son,
senior citizens wish they were young.
cold hearted orb that rules the night,
removes the colours from our sight.
red is grey and yellow white,
but we decide which is right.
and which is an illusion???.

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dotster has a special now, you transfer a domain to them for $9 and they’ll tack on an extra year of registration. i decided to move off nsi/verisign and consolidate the domains i own. so now all nine are on dotster. yay!

these are the highlights from my three day weekend:

in santa clara, there’s this stretch of road that’s immense. and marked only for one lane this way and one lane that way. my friend was in the car and i was telling him about how streets like these amuse me. how i can drive all around and still be in the same lane. and now for a demonstration. i can drive over here (drives to the far right side of the lane) and also over here (drives to the far left — this lane is like 4 or 5 car-widths wide). oops, here’s my friend’s place. turning left. there’s a cop on his street. oh shit, not there’s one behind me with the lights flashing.

stop i stop my car. the cop has me turn off the engine. says i’m driving kinda crazy and that my registration has expired. i explained what i was doing in all my honesly as i searched for my registration. (i’d renewed it, just not put on the new sticker) a few moments pass. he says forget it, just drive on the right side of the lane, swerving around can cause an accident if you dont see anybody. yessir. i’m sorry, office. and he leaves.

no more roadway amusements for me.

jose told me something to take to heart:

love may be unconditional but relationships are not.

“in every heart there is a room
a santuary safe and strong
to heal the wounds from lovers past
until a new one comes along.”