[AccessD] OT: The Archives are cursed!

Darren DICK d.dick at uws.edu.au
Wed Apr 9 23:13:31 CDT 2003


What an awesome tale. It beats the ole 'dog ate my
homework' excuse by miles. :-)  <vbg>
Seriously, I do hope everyone is OK and your pewta
too.
Best of luck dude


DD



----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: The Archives are cursed!


> Okay, follow this evidence of the curse.
>
> I initially built and hosted the archives on my
work machine.  In early
> January of this year, I moved the entire
archives to my home machine.  That
> was on a weekend, and that Thursday (so 4 days
later) my DSL provider (IP
> Communications....who my ISP was leasing my DSL
through) went bankrupt and
> just switched off their network.  It took close
to a month to get my DSL
> back up and running.  When my DSL finally came
back up, so I could once
> again 'host' the archives, I had them online,
and had even built the index
> portion (just didn't have the search using that
technology yet).  Two days
> after getting my DSL back online (with SBC as
the new DSL provider...through
> my normal ISP), my wife decided to move us to a
new apartment (300 feet
> away), so I had to move my phone AND DSL
(however I cancelled with my ISP,
> and went with SBC directly, which took close to
a month to get that to go
> through....go figure).  So mid March I finally
had DSL again, in my new
> apartment.  Two weeks ago I 'rebuilt' my website
(actually it's blank, just
> a new theme and menus......), and last week I
began putting the index
> capability into the search pages.  I announced
their existence and
> availability Monday night.  This morning
(Wednesday around 12:30 am EST),
> our apartment building caught on fire.  3 of the
4 top apartments are
> completely gutted by the fire.  I am/was in the
bottom apartment in the
> middle of the three 'gutted' ones.  My apartment
has a little fire damage,
> but a LOT of smoke and water damage.
>
> Thus, the archives are offline, once again! ARG,
I swear they are cursed.
> However, there is a silver lining.  The complex
we were leasing with do not
> have another apartment of the same size for us.
However, just down the
> street there is a brand new complex (with a
sprinkler system and firewalls
> in and around all of the apartments...go
figure...), which is offering a
> similar sized apartment, for about the same
price, however water and cable
> are included, High speed internet is available
for less then DSL (and I can
> get a static IP), not too mention free
membership to their Golf club (course
> and club house).  It's beautiful, and we already
have a deposit down on an
> apartment.  So, if all goes well, I'll have the
archives up again in a week
> or so, otherwise I've been given 'permission' to
move them back to work
> here, until I get my home system up and running.
>
> I am at work now, and have brought my home
'server' in with me (first thing
> I grabbed from my apartment, when a fireperson
let me go in real
> quick)......<grin>.  Everyone wish me luck,
because in an hour or so, I am
> going to bravely clean up the box, and see if it
turns on! <Keep your
> fingers crossed!>
>
> Drew  (Who is currently chain smoking and taking
several Tylenol every four
> hours.....)
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