Still tuesday

[jennyaxe]

And it goes on...

• I almost took the wrong medication this morning, i.e. the one I should take at night intstead of the ones I should take each morning
• I had to spend an hour in a meeting to answer questions I'd answered back in May last year, only the managers have a very short memory and needed to get all answers again
• My window manager crashed thoroughly, taking all open windows with it. Now I need to log in to about 30 servers again to continue my work.
• In one of the windows that crashed, I was almost through with a compilation of perl. It takes about an hour on that particular server.
• I'm still working on figuring out how the hell our domain web statistics thingy works. I have some documentation, which is about a year out of date. The guy who wrote it has since moved most of the stuff to a new server, changing some of the script names and rewriting others in the process, but naturally not documenting the changes anywhere. And he doesn't work here anymore. And I have no idea where the source code for the programs live; so anything that's not a perl script I just have to figure out what it does by trying to run it.
• One of the servers I'm supposed to be in charge of has a number of programs used by the customers to administrate their web site, email addresses, and so on. Some of the scripts are written in C and use Corba. Others have been rewritten in Java and don't use Corba. There is no documentation of what the programs do and how they do it, and where one of them has been rewritten in Java, the old version remains on the server.
• When the Corba stuff stops working, you have to restart a number of processes on two different servers in the right order. And the stop/start scripts don't work. And there's no documentation. Or, rather, there wasn't until I wrote it ten minutes ago.

There's probably more, but I really don't want to think about it.