An important birthday missed
Nov. 24th, 2005 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayDarn, I was so busy complaining about bad coffee yesterday that I completely forgot to note Doctor Who's 42nd birthday! So, Happy Birthday to the Doctor and may there be many more adventures with you to enjoy :-)
As a nice little connection, Little Sis had a day's work on the reception of a conference for learning disabilities yesterday and guess who was there?
Yup, Christopher Eccleston.
Apparently there's some kind of family connection there. He was signing autographs, but Little Sis didn't get a break until just before he left, so she didn't manage to meet him. Aw. But hey, she saw Christopher Eccleston and he exists outside the TV box, so that's cool.
Slightly irritating news yesterday was an email from my Quaker client asking where the website has gone. Um.
It's disappeared. Something has gone horridly wrong with the host because half their corporate websites have disappeared and our site has now been down for 48 hours, minimum. This indicates a serious problem so tonight after work I have to track the host down and ask them what the hell has happened. The client paid for two year's domain renewal and hosting in September, so I'm reluctant to advise them to move hosts, but this isn't on. Apart from anything else, if this were an e-commerce website (which it thankfully isn't) my client would be losing sales while the site is down.
Gah! And as the designer and technical contact, it's not looking good for me when the site goes down. Thankfully I didn't select the host - that was a done deal by the time I took over the site. I would have advised them to go with a different company if they hadn't already had hosting in place.
So yesterday was a mixture of the cool and the stupid. Ah, life, I love thee.
As a nice little connection, Little Sis had a day's work on the reception of a conference for learning disabilities yesterday and guess who was there?
Yup, Christopher Eccleston.
Apparently there's some kind of family connection there. He was signing autographs, but Little Sis didn't get a break until just before he left, so she didn't manage to meet him. Aw. But hey, she saw Christopher Eccleston and he exists outside the TV box, so that's cool.
Slightly irritating news yesterday was an email from my Quaker client asking where the website has gone. Um.
It's disappeared. Something has gone horridly wrong with the host because half their corporate websites have disappeared and our site has now been down for 48 hours, minimum. This indicates a serious problem so tonight after work I have to track the host down and ask them what the hell has happened. The client paid for two year's domain renewal and hosting in September, so I'm reluctant to advise them to move hosts, but this isn't on. Apart from anything else, if this were an e-commerce website (which it thankfully isn't) my client would be losing sales while the site is down.
Gah! And as the designer and technical contact, it's not looking good for me when the site goes down. Thankfully I didn't select the host - that was a done deal by the time I took over the site. I would have advised them to go with a different company if they hadn't already had hosting in place.
So yesterday was a mixture of the cool and the stupid. Ah, life, I love thee.
