Life on Mars?

My manager is going to start chemotherapy for his cancer next week. He really is the last person in the world who should have cancer so young (28). He’s healthy, does sports, he eats right… But it shows that this kind of thing could happen to anymore.

But still, God is good. I’m praying for him, and I’d like you to too, please. Eric and I are going to have extra work on our plates to help him out, so please pray for us to be up to the task too. ; )

I finally got my blog working again. : ) Not out of any cleverness at all, I just installed Wordpress in another directory, linked it to the same database, and then renamed the directory. I’m a code slob. ;_;

When I woke up this morning the internet wasn’t working. It was really weird too, because we could resolve all the IP and DNS info we needed from our ISP (Charter). Well, since our ISP at work is Pocket iNet so I thought I wouldn’t have any problems. Turns out I was wrong :P.

The fine people who host my work’s web service (Thankfully not the application itself), use Charter for their DNS resolver/whatever. Anyone trying to access our web page would not be able to resolve our IP from our domain name. Lovely! We have lots of files hosted there that we link from our app, the density calculator, most our reports and file processes depend on our web hosting as well. So the gears of our glorious machine didn’t grind to a halt, but they sure got gummed up.

If theres one thing that irks me at my job, it’s when the carriers change their pricing with little to no notice. We try to be prepared well in advace for carrier pricing changes. It’s nice to be able to let our customer’s know about upcoming changes, schedule the work load, etc… But in the past two weeks, two pricing changes have been dropped in our lap. One of them had been in effect since 1/1/2007, they changed their pricing and didn’t tell anyone. You can imagine how popular a carrier they must be if it took over a month for people to notice that they increased their rates. The other one was agreed upon in advance, but no one told us about it, and we were unable to get an extension on it. So we had to shove two system wide rating changes into our schedules, and we needed to get those changes pushed out practically simeltaniously. Well, we got it done at least. : )