Chan's Personal Blog

Well, today was a pretty exhausting day. I started the morning right by having two quizzes. One of them I only did okay on, the questions on it was not what I had expected.

In either case, the day got better when I walked into work. As I entered, one of my co-workers told me that the web server had crashed and that my boss asked me to start running my various repair scripts on the system. After the system was back up and running, we started looking for the cause of the crash. We identified the cause of the server crash and began planning fixes for it.

Shortly later in the afternoon one of the staff members dropped by the office saying that the calendar in our software seems to be malfunctioning, it says today's date is October 27th, 2004. I checked it and couldn't reproduce the bug, so I didn't think about it anymore. I left the office for the washroom, and when I got back, my co-workers said the boss was looking for me, something about the server again. So when I went to my boss' office, she said something bad happened to the server.

When the server died this afternoon, we had to reboot the computer, and for some reason the server didn't set its clock properly. It set the date to October 27th. We have a lot of things in our software that relies on the date being accurate. To make a long story short, we spent the rest of the afternoon going through the database searching for records that had screwed up time stamps and what not.

On top of that, I've been waiting for an important phone call for the last two days, and it's like a splinter in mind driving me insane.

So.... that summarizes an awesome day I had today. Good times good times . I'm off to bed, the battle starts up again tomorrow.