A Week of Technical Challenges, so why am I smiling?
They always come in three’s, why is that?
The week started with a power outage, Monday morning was not good for many businesses.
Tuesday I had mobile phone issues, darn thing kept switching itself off, and if that wasn’t bad enough, disabling the answer service in the process. Anyway, nice lady in the phone shop exchanged it. Following day I took it back, the replacement kept switching itself off. Nice lady in the phone shop replaced it for a different model, really, really good customer service, although, I suspect it may have been a case of just getting me out of the shop ! lol.
Yesterday we had a problem with our internal system, running extremely sloooowly in IE 8. Anyway, after isolating and discounting every step in the chain between server and workstation(s) we concluded the network card had been zapped during Mondays power outage. 9 pm Thursday evening after restoring back up arrays and replacing network cards we concluded the DNS must have become corrupt. In a last ditch attempt to find an alternative cause we discovered that an Anti Virus update to the browser plugin was the culprit… extremely annoying since we had (we thought) disabled the AV in the earliest stage of our diagnosis.
Friday I received an updated preview on our new MIGTurbo 2.0 Rich Internet Application interface (RIA), and the clouds parted and all was good with the world once more. Ahh! isn’t it good to end the week on a high note!
