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[Pondlife]

Morning All,


Sunny but you know it's going to bucket down later.

[mudskipper]

ms#05 (in accusatory voice): "Why are you so cheerful this morning? You're never cheerful."

It has to be said, I do have a strange, slightly euphoric feeling.

Is this what that elusive thing called happiness feels like?

Ah, well, I'm sure normal service will be resumed shortly.

You'll be relieved to hear that the good feelings have subsided. Will pipe happy music through my earphones in an attempt to reawaken, although I suspect it will just get on my nerves.

[SimonMac]

Nice drive up to ClientCo this morning, sun was shining, no cows were on the road blocking me, all in all it was quite pleasant.

[NickFitz]

Internet problems at ClientCorp have resulted in Stack Overflow being blocked. All development activity has basically come to a halt

[NickFitz]

ms#05 (in accusatory voice): "Why are you so cheerful this morning? You're never cheerful."

It has to be said, I do have a strange, slightly euphoric feeling.

Is this what that elusive thing called happiness feels like?

Ah, well, I'm sure normal service will be resumed shortly.

A stroke, probably

[NickFitz]

And of course the case of Scunthorpe being blocked en-mass by AOL and, a few years later, Google.

To the extent that the phenomenon of inadvertent blocking is now known as the Scunthorpe Effect

[eek]

Internet problems at ClientCorp have resulted in Stack Overflow being blocked. All development activity has basically come to a halt

That reminds me of my how to follow best practice story...

At Clientco but 2 we discovered a problem with deployment of some alfresco code. Eventually after a few hours we pinpoint the problem and start searching for a fix.

Hit stack overflow and it has a question that is identical to ours with a solution. Unfortunately that solution looks like its already been implemented.

We look closer and look at the names in the record. The person asking the question looks strangely familiar and after a few seconds we work out its a contractor who left a couple of months earlier. Fair enough obviously we had this problem before.

We move on to the sole answer. Hang on that name also looks familiar... Isn't that the other contractor who left at the same time...

[eek]

Looks like my next contract could be far too close to MS for safety...

[mudskipper]

Either I've gone completely deaf in my right ear, or one of my earphones is duff.

[SimonMac]

Internet problems at ClientCorp have resulted in Stack Overflow being blocked. All development activity has basically come to a halt

Its when CUK is blocked that a problem occurs!