I had a call today to zoom off to Manchester – at 15:00!
This means MUNDO traffic chaos (It’s the north of England’s traffic hell hole) AND a late night
Still, I like working with the client in question AND I LOVE MY JOB :) (could I make that any more obvious?)
Off I zooooooomed…

Got there just after 16:00 – a minor miracle in it’s self – and started the diagnosis.
The issue was simply that their router had ‘died’. Not usually a panic job, but in this case the router provides a permanent connection to the Leeds office – i.e. the Manchester office couldn’t do anything!
As ALL small business owners know TIME = MONEY. The longer Manchester were down the more £££s it was costing.

Diagnosed the error – bypassed the routers power switch – re-connected the offices – made happy client
Total downtime = about 1 ½ hours. Not too bad for a total router failure

If I hadn’t managed the fix, there would have been 10 unhappy individuals commuting to Leeds early tomorrow.
For a brief moment I was their hero

We techies are usually:

• The scum of the universe
• Butt of all jokes
• socially unacceptable
• In a happy world of our own

(Delete as applicable)
We have to take what little praise we can

#EDIT#
I have added a few WordPress plugins
- There is now a button bar to share this blog, mouse over to see the options
- There is a newer Tag Cloud, it’s now got colour fading with tag popularity and other cool features :)
- There is a new, more accessible paging system (It’s at the extreme bottom of the blog)

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