Hot network closets in your area

One of our network node rooms at work had it’s air con die yesterday (Friday) afternoon. It’s not considered critical and we are in a budget squeeze, so the team who are responsible for it have decided it can wait over the weekend. They have however, not turned off the alert emails. So now I’m getting a nice hour by hour view of the temperature in an uncooled network closet until things start turning off. It’s hit almost 42C overnight and is still on the rise… I’m not sure what the shut off point for the kit in there is, but it’s clearly still running…

Dental Woes

I don’t like dentists. I know that regular dental check-ups are important. I know that they are key to having a healthy mouth. But I don’t like them. I have a bad gag reflex and some really bad memories of having a cast made of my teeth when I was younger. So when we moved I never really bothered looking into getting signed up with a dentist. This was a bad idea…

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New Shiny Thing

I’m not great at blogging. Long form historically hasn’t worked well for me and full microblogging feels a little too restrictive (I can ramble a bit much and splitting into a thread is mentally awkward). Maybe this will be a working middle ground.

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