Category: My Past

I have had possibly the worst 2 days of my LIFE! We had a brilliant weekend, raised money for a good casue. And things were honkey doory.

Then came monday night, 6:00pm, and LT were supposed to be turning off our server, and putting a new hard drive in so that we could move the data across, and hopefully have trouble free hosting.

Right, so this should of been done at 6:00pm monday evening. By about half 7, they told me my server would be turned off. By about 10:30, they turned it off. TWO HOURS LATER they tell me..

“ Hello, Your reload is in progress”

What the fuck? So 6 hours after you said it was gonna be done, your JUST starting it? Losers! Anyway, 3 HOURS after that i get…

“ Hello, Sorry for the delay but your reload is complete.”

So i got my mate to check stuff, and they had NOT put the old HDD in as a slave. TWATS! All our sites had been down now for a day. And they had ONLY just completed the task they were supposed to do – well – half of it anyway.

NINE HOURS LATER they figured out they haddnt put the old drive in as a slave even though id told them 3 times. It then took them  a further 2 hours to locate and find a second drive and mount it.

It was the wrong fucking drive wasnt it!! Its then taken them a DAY, a full fucking DAY to find our old drive (all last ngiht i was preparing to sue them, cos i thought we’d lost everyhting) plug it in, and turn it on.

LOSERS!!!!

And my mate daniel has flogged himself to death all day for me, getting shit across so that it could actually be used. I cannot stress enough how much you have saved my life today daniel, thank you so much! Dave, if you reading this we need to get this boy some rims for his car!!

And i cannot stress enought how fucking crap Layered Technologies (Layeredtech) are. I understand that the servers are self managed and its up to us to look after them, but its taken them two full days to do the simplest task in the world!

I blame the fact about 8 different people were dealing with my case. I dont imagine what i requested is requested very often, and they usually get basic reloads and HDD swaps, but not reading the support log before jumping in and doing major thigns like ripping hard drives out of live clients servers, is just unprofessional, stupid and generally not a fucking sane thing to do.

If you debating wether or ot to use LayeredTech, id say DONT. Find someone who willl actually provide you with telephone support. As support tickets can be ignored and forgotten about FAR to easily!

I have had about 4 million things to blog about, ive missed everyhting so much. its good to be back!

I was being driven to work on saturday evening with the fond memories of the crazy BBQ the night before still lingering in my mind, when i struck up a conversation with my boss who just happened to be giving us the lift to the sites that day. I asked him if he had seen the Da Vinci Code, and he became the first person i that had asked that question, to give me a negative reply.

He started goin on about how it was a ridiculas idea that jesus still had a blood line in france etc etc and that the reason the dude looks like a lady in that painting is that artists in that era DID paint people more feminine looking.. pale faces etc. He also believes that jesus was gay, and that being gay wasnt looked upon as being a bad thing back then. Quite controversial! Me Like!
Anyway, he started talking about judas (a word i remember Fi using as a tounge-in-cheek addon to insulting names for people, something to do with jews.. meh) And he started talking about the lost gospels of judas. He went on to tell me that instead of judas being the bastard that he was made out to be, that instead he was actually following orders from jesus to grass him in to the 5-0. It got me quite interested!

Now im not religious in any way, i dont really believe there is a god, but i believe all these people in the bible and other such historical religious books were real. They were obviously extreme religious people, and in a similar way to how samurai’s walk on fire and glass and seem to defy gravity and belief, these religious guys were probably able to perform stunts that came from focusing energy hard enough, that would shock bystanders into believing they had special powers of some kind. These people gave others hope, and for that they were immortalized in books and scripts, and in later years these books were used by people to gain hope. Religion is about hope i guess, it gives some people meaning. It just provides me with interesting reads 🙂

LSOM went brilliant, loads of cars, models, 2 biger vans, an Ice cream van, about 5 photographers and 1 x fair ground ride!

We raised £430 for the Sherwood Forest Hospitals Cancer Appeal. Sweet!

Back to work tomorrow after a weekend of bizarre sleeping patterns. Should be a enjoyable walk to work tomorrow. Bah!

I think i deserve an early night. Its 22:26 as i write this, and i recon ill be tucked up by 23:00. I cant remember the last time i had a decent nights sleep. At one time i knew the exact amount of sleep i would need to feel bob on in the mornings. I dont know about any one else, but i feel SHIT if i dont have enough sleep, and i feel SHIT if i have too much sleep..

The balance has probably shifted now cos im gettin older, shouldnt i be waking up rate early and doin all that shit older people do? My dad gets up at like 6 every morning even sundays.. The guys mad i tell ya. I suppose i still do things that make me more tired than your averige joe. Like abuse myself regulary 🙂

Anyway, sleep. Goin to a BBQ tomorrow, and i havent got to work till saturday night which is a bonus. Woo! A friday i can finally look forward to!