Hard-woes

Ugh. There must be something in the water. Over the course of the last 6 days, 75% of our hardware pieces have had critical to catastrophic failures. It's times like these that a company lives and dies (or survives) on its backups and redundancies. For over 98% of our customers, it was life as usual--they never suffered a twinge or inconvenience. For the remaining 2%, a few of the more advanced reporting tools were off-line for a period of time and a server security SSL key was inactive for about 45 minutes. It's a tribute to our staff and contractors that, considering the magnitude of the rebuilding and restoring, everything went so smoothly.
There's an old saying that's been passed down from generation to generation in my family: 'What do I want for Christmas this year? More time.' After re-allocating about 75 hours of staff time over the past week from our ongoing tasks to right the hardware ships, I'd like a box-full of extra time this Christmas.
Greatest thing ever: the latest cellphone from Blackberry (Verizon service) is designed to act as a passthrough from your computer or other device onto their high-speed wireless network. 700Kb-1.4Mb throughput anywhere in their range--and no extra 'service' charge that they like to ram down your throat. Ah, the doors that the ever-widening virtual broadband networks continue to open. 2 years from now, what does that do for the local wi-fi model that many smalled businesses and towns are rolling out or have installed? Another example of how technology continues to lower the costs to do more things than one can imagine while creating new opportunities and new avenues. Gotta love it.

Last, the question of the day: Will Nomah end up in Yankee Pinstripes?