Friday, October 31, 2008

It's just me, the Roku and RoadRunner this weekend

I'm on-call again. Primary this time that means there is little chance I'll even leave the house unless something really breaks (please no, please, God, don't let anything break). My weekend will be spent trying to decipher the ramblings of people all over the world who can't copy a file from Hanoi to Addis Ababa or wherever they're trying to move data from A to B.

Funny story. Our offices in Nigeria are currently down. Why? No, people dressing up as state workers and tearing the road up to get at the cooper buried was a good guess. This time around the copper robbers broke into the local telecommunications office to steal all the copper cabling and piping they could find. And they found a lot. Instead of simply moving on to the next target they doused the place in kerosene and tossed a match to cover the evidence. Things went rapidly from bad to worse when the pipe to the underground fiber vault was not properly plugged. So it burned as well. And that vault was a major fiber intersection within the country. *NICE*

At least the Netflix 'Play Instantly' selection is increasing by factors of two and three a week (it seems). Being home alone and tried to said home at least I'll have lots of options of movies to watch. *HUZZAH*!!!

1 comment:

Tanner Lovelace said...

I'm by myself this weekend (J&B headed up to West Virginia this morning) and am planning to learn how to fiberglass rocket tubes. I'd invite you over if you wanted to come. :-) (Always trying to recruit more people to go out and launch large, dangerous, rocket ships... :-) We went to a launch last weekend and watched launches of rockets with up to M motors, and launched an H ourselves.)