Well, after two very long days and a standard day of fighting our exchange server, I’ve given up. I did manage to get our data imported again and get the server up and running, unfortunately the database is very corrupted and we’ve lost at least half of the email. We went back to the tapes to see if we could pull off the last backup before the server died (the exchange drives were untouched in the crash but the databases were corrupted because exchange didn’t shut down correctly) and found that all the backup tools are reporting the tapes as completely empty.

Lately there’s been a number of blogs from people looking for Java WYSIWYG editors that work in a browser. The latest one from Bertrand Delacretaz is enough to prompt me to speak up. Firstly, I work for a company that develops a browser based WYSIWYG editor so I’m biased, but I’m also an expert in the field. We’re the top of the line in browser based editors and there’s really only a couple of other companies that can compare with our product.

Exchange takes ages to run the tests over it’s database. I got bored, boredom leads to creativity, creativity leads to parody, parody leads to bad song lyrics, bad song lyrics leads to Yoda. [To the tune of Drink With Me] Sys Admin, rest…. Drink with me, to nights, gone by. Type with me, isinteg alltests. Here’s to exchange servers who went to our heads, Here’s to shitty servers, who kept us from our beds.

I need a drink. Oh Yeah! I’ve spent the 40 hours trying to restore our exchange server to operation after a power outage on the weekend took out the motherboard of the server. It’s 9:45pm, I’m still at work and I haven’t even started the hard part yet. I was here until midnight last night only to discover that the server needed to be completely replaced. Fortunately, it looks like we won’t loose any data in the whole episode – assuming I can eventually get exchange to do what it’s told.

I think I’ve created a monstrosity. I currently have (and am happily switching between) 2 screens, 2 keyboards, 2 mice and a trackpad – all connected to the same laptop. Why you ask? Because each input device is in an ideal position for a particular task. No I didn’t plan it this way but it is working out pretty well. Here’s what my desktop currently looks like (excuse the dodgy iSight photo quality): It started off pretty simply – a laptop with an external (bluetooth) mouse.

Could it be? Yes, it could. Something’s coming, something good, If I can wait! Something’s coming, I don’t know what it is, But it is Gonna be great! I’m getting the feeling that good things are starting to happen around me and that it’s all for a purpose. Today I went to my cousin’s sixth birthday party and the sister of one of his friends was on her way to an acting class.

Okay, Microsoft have officially gone too far now. That’s my C drive, it’s where I put my stuff. It’s mine. It is not, has never been and should never be a Windows system folder. Not to mention the fact that hiding files like this does not make the interface easier to use, it just introduces another mode that confuses users and makes users panic because they’re in some cryptic part of the OS that they shouldn’t be in.

Which OS are You? Brian McCallister got me started on this. Apparently he’s slackware. I’m Palm and everything it says is so true it’s scary. Update: I have to point out this: if you ended up with GNU/HURD it means you didn’t answer all the questions.

While reading this article about The Producers, I noticed the following couple of paragraphs: One of the producers of The Producers, John Frost, says they particularly wanted someone for the role of Max Bialystock, who had a vaudeville or musical background. “Unfortunately, we don’t breed that style of actors any more and we were very lucky with Reg Livermore in getting him for this role, because Reg is probably the last of that breed.

And the RAM is taketh away again… My shiny new RAM arrived today. Unfortunately it appears to be the emporer’s RAM as it looks real, feels real, I assume it tastes real, but when you put it in my laptop Apple System Profiler reports the slot as completely empty. Needless to say, it’s being sent back. Unfortunately, since it came from Melbourne the replacement process will probably take most of next week.

I found the missing comment emails I referred to earlier. I have a spam filter on my email and it works wonders apparently. Probably should put in an exception for stuff that comes from the blog…..

Or not…. Anyway, my point was – why does everyone else get to play with GMail and I don’t? Bah, Ghumbug.