There seems to be a virus going around on the mailing lists at Google (at least, possibly elsewhere too), and I was the lucky recipient of such a mail. When Thunderbird tried to download the virussed-up "package", Officescan stepped in and presented me with the following informative message:

"Oh no! OfficeScan has detected one or more virus/malware on your computer...
For detailed information about the virus/malware, click the virus/malware name.

There is something on your shirt."

... Wait, what?!

The Majestic Llama

The Majestic Llama
Originally uploaded by Albie Janse van Rensburg

There is a growing llama group on Facebook, which my work colleague; friend; and resident psychopath (all-in-one!), who will remain nameless, frequents everyday. I am avoiding it. This picture appears on that group, apparently.

That's a happy looking llama...

(picture taken on a sunny autumn day 2006, at the Joburg zoo)

In other news, it seems that disasters are sticky. They come in clumps. Our domain controller's hard drive crashed last night. This means that all users in our local network can not log in to the network, which means 2 members of IT had a 48-hour day. Microsoft also has an amazing scheme set up for replication and fail-safe nets that should keep disasters like these at their maximum annoyance. From when we (oh, stupid, stupid IT people!) tried to set up a new service that is supposed to restore the machine to its former glory:

"Sorry! Your credentials match those of a user that already exists in the domain! Therefore, you can not set up this server as a domain controller! :D" (paraphrased)

Sigh

Oh, the other disasters? Well, that one is the biggie. But halfway through it all, our web system stops responding, because the web server app (IIS, also a fabulous Microsoft production) had one of its' "worker processes" exit. Or, in Common, it crashed (a bit). So users that weren't affected by disaster 1, are now annoyed by disaster 2. Yay.

And now the backups of our system are taking about 20 hours to restore from tape.

It's a good thing I've got a llama to reflect on. Praise the Lord!

Just a normal weekend workday

It's Saturday, and I'm at work, doing non-work related things. Things are looking hectic in my near future, with a more-than-massive scale project looming at work, and a bunch of subjects for my Unisa degree lying neglected on a bookshelf.

It's going to get interesting.

Ego

me - blooargh
Originally uploaded by Albie Janse van Rensburg

This is me. I don't usually look this normal. My hobbies include peach-snorting, elephantine compact disk constellations, and epochs. Friends call me, but they sometimes regret it.

Have a nice day.