Well today was interesting. Was on the way to grab Nick and head out to Great China for lunch, and a couple people down in 10's office noticed that pages weren't loading. On the way out of the lab noticed that something was definitely wrong, figured probalby a switch. Get up to Nick's office and am greeted by "<the core router> is down". I started to say it looked like more than that, and we both realized we were definitely not gonna be going to lunch for a while. Turns out one of the breakers that powers most of 2 racks of core switches and servers tripped, taking out a couple switches from the main mesh that feeds all the VLANs, as well as the core router between those VLANs, the VLAN server, DHCP, DNS, monitoring, etc. The switches for the most part came up OK, but DHCP/DNS required a bit of poking. And then the router - it's still sorta in development and nothing is set to come up on boot. Of course Nick isn't the one who works on that and that person happened to be out at lunch, so... An hour or so later we actually ended up leaving for lunch, which was very nice and relaxing at that point. Other fun things of the day involved building a hack around that nice mailman bug, and more general miscellaneous stuff. I got the basis of renaming student accounts on the windows side functional, which is nice since students get married and tend to want their logins changed relatively often and the process is usually manual and sorta time consuming. The evening was hanging out a bit at the Help Desk bugging Joe and Austin. Then went home and watched Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (second one in the series for those who haven't figured it out yet). Pretty decent movie in my opinion. Can tell it was made back in the early 80s though. In other news it appears inanimate objects have figured out how to post blog entries yet again. Judging from the fact that this one isn't blank I have a feeling there may be more to this one than the last time an inanimate object posted to some blog.