Words you never want to see on the weekend

[goredtorso]

When you're the on-call engineer, you never want to see emails:

... power outage...
... fire ...
... drying out the equipment...

Good thing it's the failover colocation.

Comments

[robot_mel]

Do you work at popcap too?

[goredtorso]

Not me, I'm out of the video game biz. I'm in law now.

[robot_mel]

Ah, there was a message on facebook just when you posted that that said they had a server fire...

Bill is currently working for a law firm in their library, but he doesn't like the lawyers much. ;)

[staxxy]

ick

[haate]

be glad...we had something similar (though i'm not on call, thankfully enough) and it was so bad that in order to get SOMETHING out to the customers...the location set up a twitter feed.

[goredtorso]

The house
The house
The house is on fire.
Don't need no water
Let the motherboards burn.

[vanillaisis]

I'll spare you the red stapler joke...

http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Seattle_data_center_fire_knocks_out_Bing_Travel_other_Web_sites_49876777.html