Monday, August 30, 2010

walk the talk

it's easy until you have to walk it.
1Cor gives a whole chapter to it and yet many a times even when we know it, we do not do it for wanting to assert our rights.
all that we do will amount to nothing if it's not motivated by love.

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Unpleasant phone call

 
Yesterday I got an unpleasant phone call
Nope, it's not a prank call or one of those sales calls. It's from office ( I can hear you say why didn't I think of that ). It the equipment I'm working on. There's been a hard disk failure. The main drive where all the work files are kept went down. They called to check if I've backed up everything. 
Well almost everything, I told them with a cold sweat running down my brow. About two months back the back up drive had failed and we were given a smaller backup disk. Due to space constrain, certain files were not backed up. I had to choose what I considered important. 
Needless to say I was negligent in this and did not chose some of the important files. Also the daily habit of backing up everything became backing up control files and later on, I'll do it tomorrow. What can possibly happen in 12 hours with computer switched off. 
Well, one of my colleague power it up and the disk will not come up. So after trying several time without success, he called me to let me know the bad news. 
There was still hope that it need it's rest just like us. Came into office early this morning, power up the computer and … the disk is still dead. As I write this now, my engineers are busy fixing / consolidating the remaining disk. 
Lessons learnt - 
Do your backup daily even when you don't feel like it. 
Back up everything when job is ongoing, you'll have time to clean up when the project's done. 
You are most probably not the only one who suffers the consequence of your slackness. Although you should be the one who suffers most. 
Routines are boring but it saves lives.