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I really should clear off my desk before i go on vacation shouldn't i? It's just cluttered really. I can't seem to help it.

Naturally at 3:30 yesterday I got notification that something broke. Something that hasn't been touched for months and that has been working all along until yesterday. Also nothing that I can really fix but it was down to me to track down. Something is redirecting the browser to an invalid url it looks like. Why all of a sudden it is doing that? No idea. Nothing that i know anything about and one person that might is off sick. Everyone swears nothing has changed but obviously something has. I just want to sit here under the radar until i can go home and start my 2 weeks off!

I'm starting to think about maybe, just maybe, getting a smartphone. I don't need one. I don't use a mobile phone a lot, definitely not for conversations. Would i use it more if i had a fancy phone? Hard to say. If i did get one, i'd find the least expensive plan. I know you can do pay as you go with a smartphone now but you have to buy the phone outright and that can be pricey. I don't really want to spend that kind of money. I'm not really paying anything much extra for my landline, it's part of my cable and internet bundle so i wouldn't be saving anything by letting that go.

Then there's the dizzying array of plans. Would i use it a lot or a little? I have wifi at home and at work so i can get away without using as much data for most of the work week.

It's certainly not a necessity, just a toy. I had thought of a low end iPhone which would replace my iPod as well, mainly because i already have iTunes and it's all set up. Would be easy to sync everything over to a phone. But also, I like the look of the Samsung S 3 phones and I was talking to a rep yesterday who was showing me lots of info about it. Very nice. My cousin has one too and loves it. I have a feeling i may end up putting it off for at least another year but then i could jump right into one too. My current pay as you go voucher expires at the end of June so i would probably decide by then what to do. I may also jump ship to Virgin instead of Telus because i like their plans a bit more. They seem to be less restrictive. That's if i go with a contract at least. Need to do more research on that.

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Sorted out that problem. One of the webby guys mentioned that it looked like the url was trying to access an application on Server a. I was under the impression it was on server B but apparently there's a version on A as well. Ahhhhh..... Light goes on. Send me the webserver configuration file.
Yep, there it is.
Several months ago a database was moved to a new server and we had to change the pointer to the new server. This was done and tested on the servers that we thought were the ones where the applications were. Did not know about this other server so it's been pointing to a non -existent database since early february. The request said they used this application on a daily basis. Well some of your staff might but whoever was using that particular url couldn't possibly be because it hasn't worked since early February.

I was able to get to the server and change the setting but i couldn't restart the web server bit so had to wait for an administrator with access to do that. Badda bing badda boom and we're in business again. On both servers. The server we'd been familiar with is a testing server ("QA" for those of you that know the lingo) and I did wonder why they were running an application on that but that's what I was told so that's what we fixed back then. The server that "broke" yesterday is the Live environment server. That makes more sense. Now apparently we'll have people using it on both but both are pointing to a Live database not a QA one so it's ok for now. These are applications written by a former employee from when the web eservices programming was done from a different department, not our IT Developer team. That programmer left and the rest of us are mystified most of the time as to what the apps do and how to fix them if something goes wrong. We'll end up rewriting them in the new technology we're learning now though.

Bring on vacation! I'm off now and G. arrives on Saturday! Woot!