TLC Virginity Lost
I've been working for UNE's Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) for a few weeks now.
TLC manages the two Learning Management Systems that UNE employs to spread course material to students. One of these is called "BlackBoard" - or for those who knew the predecessors, WebCT 6. BlackBoard is by far the most troublesome of the systems, but is often the easiest to fix the problems for because of the support team at UNE and from BlackBoard itself. It seems the standard for people in TLC (at least the programmers) to break BlackBoard every-so-often - and is in fact expected of new people working for TLC within a week of their employ.
Four and a bit weeks on my timesheet, and I have had a lot of tinkering around in BlackBoard. And I do mean a lot - 11 average alterations to 2586 units so far - that's 28,446 updates for the mathematically challenged.
It should have broken well before today.
My consolation is that not only did I achieve it today, but I broke it good too.
Not only could I not continue my work, but no one could upload or import any data to the system at all. Everyone, even the most experienced of the users here were getting fatal errors all over the place, and their browsers were crashing, followed shortly after by a forced attempt crashing everyone who was using the System's computers as well! Tense calls were placed to the BlackBoard Developers in the the US - whose remote diagnostic tools crashed when interacting with our server. Finally we all just gave up and went home for the night - hoping that leaving it alone while they jump-started the server and let the US Developers tinker from their end would fix it...
In other words, this was not just loosing my TLC Virginity - this was loosing it in a mop-and-bucket-clean-up threesome of nineteen year old midget MILFs while being filmed and then the vid getting over a million hits on YouTube.
Fuck yeah!
TLC manages the two Learning Management Systems that UNE employs to spread course material to students. One of these is called "BlackBoard" - or for those who knew the predecessors, WebCT 6. BlackBoard is by far the most troublesome of the systems, but is often the easiest to fix the problems for because of the support team at UNE and from BlackBoard itself. It seems the standard for people in TLC (at least the programmers) to break BlackBoard every-so-often - and is in fact expected of new people working for TLC within a week of their employ.
Four and a bit weeks on my timesheet, and I have had a lot of tinkering around in BlackBoard. And I do mean a lot - 11 average alterations to 2586 units so far - that's 28,446 updates for the mathematically challenged.
It should have broken well before today.
My consolation is that not only did I achieve it today, but I broke it good too.
Not only could I not continue my work, but no one could upload or import any data to the system at all. Everyone, even the most experienced of the users here were getting fatal errors all over the place, and their browsers were crashing, followed shortly after by a forced attempt crashing everyone who was using the System's computers as well! Tense calls were placed to the BlackBoard Developers in the the US - whose remote diagnostic tools crashed when interacting with our server. Finally we all just gave up and went home for the night - hoping that leaving it alone while they jump-started the server and let the US Developers tinker from their end would fix it...
In other words, this was not just loosing my TLC Virginity - this was loosing it in a mop-and-bucket-clean-up threesome of nineteen year old midget MILFs while being filmed and then the vid getting over a million hits on YouTube.
Fuck yeah!