It's been busy but boring. Work stuff has been routine get stuff ready for the break/outages/announced changes, not much fun playing with new toys stuff. On Monday Ogo #1 went back to the store. It was sorta funny since it couldn't authenticate to the network at all when I brought it back. Apparently there were major problems with their network that day though. Today Ogo #2 is freaking out (can't properly authenticate and use the network). Given similarities to other outages they've had, I wonder if they increase in roaming traffic is overloading the HLR systems. Oh well, all I know is they can't seem to keep everything up reasonably. One day it's the air interface, the next the portal, and they don't have good coverage where I'd like to use it anytime. Non-work stuff hasn't been much. The VoIP phone worked great at home, but I brought it back to my office. It's sitting here again for a while seeing as there's not much use for it at the office, and we'll see if it keeps working as students get back at the end of Break. Tuesday was Paul's birthday party, which was good. That whole crowd doesn't get together as often since everyone has crazy schedules lately. This morning one of the database servers at work blew up. I fixed a couple other things that depended on it (mainly just getting the online giving back up), and I think I'm gonna leave it until Sunday. It's Christmas, quit trying to work... :) Plus it'd mean going in, and I'm not even supposed to be able to get into the buildings... I'll leave you with a great quote that came across nanog-l this morning.

The true artform of the craft, is to realize that the maintenance, and day to day operations of complex computer systems -isn't- a battle against logic and math, like we were originally taught....

But, in sooth, is a battle against human error, in all its myriad of forms.

-Richard Irving