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MacGyver style serverroom fix

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Who doesn’t remember the old MacGyver series, in which Angus MacGyver always found a way of getting him self out of a difficult situation with minimal tools available to him.
Last week, I had the dubious honour of feeling a bit like him.

Saturday morning, my mobile phone rang. A colleague had discovered the (double)airco had malfunctioned in the server room, and several machines had shutdown because of it.
I jumped in my car and drove over there. My colleague who had already arrived had put a mobile airco unit in the room, but I saw that because the hose was to short all hot air could not properly be disposed.

To find a solution for this until the Airco company arrived, I decided the hose should be extend.
But how? Then I noticed a couple of boxes in which toners had been transported.
Together with a letter opener ( I couldn’t find a knife nearby ) and some tape I created this:

Luckily no devices had been damaged permanently

Holiday

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Just a short message to make you all jealous…
I’v taken a week off and went a week to spain to relax a little :)

I’ll be back in a few days…

It has been a while….

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

It has been a while when I last posted something. This, ofcourse has had his reasons.
The last few months I have been really busy with with a project I have been working on. I have had to integrate six different applications (Siebel, HighDeal, some custom apps) on a Tivoli Access Manager with LDAP environment for single-sign-on purposes. Next to that, I have had also my usual tasks as Manager Services and I had to travel 3 hours a day from my home near The Hague to Amsterdam and viceversa. So little time was left to do anything else than my work. I hope things are going to change now I have decided to go to another company to do the things I initially studied for: Network infrastructure and which is more close to my home so I suspect I will not have to travel as much as I have done last year.

Offcourse, this means I have more time and therefore I hope to post more regular on my website…

Happy New Year

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

I am shamed to say I have not updated my site a lot, and even forgot to wish all you guys a Merry Christmas.
Please don’t hack me for it ;-)

The last thing I do before 2007 begins, is wishing you a very Happy New Year

Promotion

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

I have not posted anything in a while because I? have been? a bit busy with all kinds of things.

For example, I got promoted to Manager Services so I had to put more effort in to this job, besides that the father of my best friend suddenly died and me and my girlfriend are looking for a bigger house.

Reading this back, and knowing what all these things mean to me I can truly say “I have been really busy”.
I have been working on a new post, but have not found enough time to finish it… so until then… You just wait ;-)

Tim