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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

After much procrastinating, I am finally going to buy a cool t-shirt I have seen on the web.  Every other time, I have found a way out of it.  Now, I have found the one t-shirt that I must buy. Here it is for your viewing pleasure:



I will be buying this shirt! It is available at Busted Tees.  I will, of course, be abusing the bandwidth at the office. 

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Today was one of those days that started out quite promising.  I had a little bit of a chore to do at work--rebuild a server.  The work should have taken me the whole day, but it looks like I will be working on it tomorrow. 

I headed down to our machine room, with the media in hand I needed to install the operating system.  All of this was going well, except when I realized there was a networking configuration that needed to be fixed.  Well, I could reach no one at the office, so I headed back to my office.  Of course, it was close to lunch.  I found out that the person I needed  to talk to was out to lunch.  I waited an hour until he came back, and then I headed back down to the machine room to finish the install. 

I decide to just start it over, and all goes well.  I pop in the new configuration, and the server refuses to see anything.  All looks well, and I try a few other things.  Frustrated, I head back to my office.  I ask my colleague who installed this server before to take a look at this with me, as I needed to run to an afternoon meeting.  I told him what happened, and he remembered that there is yet another networking component that needs to be addressed.  Off to my meeting I went, with the realization that I will have to finish this work tomorrow. 

Everything is set for tomorrow, so this should go much smoother than it did today. 

Lessons learned: if I had known all of this, I would have been done with this today.  I might have had some minor items to update tomorrow.  This is what happens when one gets stuck behind one project for much too long--if I was not tethered to email, I would have been available when the initial installation was done and known most of this information.  Finally, I love to have all of my ducks in a row when working on a project, and sometimes working in a large group makes that preparation difficult. 

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