Daynote ,Svenson

MM-xxxxviii     Thursdy

2000-02-17

It doesn't feel like freezing this morning but yet it is just 0°C. And it rained most of the nigh. Now if you add rain and frost the result is an interesting road condition. Once past Genk the roads are dry and clear but it took some acrobatic driving to get there. Of course between six and seven there is almost no trafic so it is not much of a problem if you get on the wrong side of the road at times. Apart from a heavy hail shower at noon (just when the boss and a few architects are out for a walk <<BG>> ) the day is dry but cloudy but with enough breaks.

I do solve a few more II/DR programs. With just six to go I will probably finish tomorrow. In between I help Dimirty to pin down a problem. Basically an easy problem but he has been starting himself blind on it. Quite frustration for him but it happens to everybody from time to time. He has been looking at it for hours on end without finding the problem. he finally calls me. I come over, take a look and, within a minute point him to the error. He he.
That happens to me all the time, I solve (well pinpoint) other peoples problems fast and effortless but I keep slaving on my own problems.

On an other "in between" action (well I do more in-betweens then normal stuff) I find and solve another problem. Loek noticed that the handling of orders with type "already shipped" (typically when a client picks up the goods directly and afterwards the order is recorded) are handled different in TeleSales as compared to OMSI-3. He doesn't know if this is intentional or not so he ask Theo, who doesn't know it of course so he passes on the mail to Pieter (and Jan, with a CC to me). Pieter misinterpreted the problem and gives an off-topic answer which throws Theo and Loek totally off course. Jan responds with two answers (one correct to the actual problem and another to cause more confusion).
While this goes on I check my mail, test the programs and see that there is indeed an error. Only when I report it as solved to Theo do I notice the flurry of mail (only the very first was CC-ed to me). I explain the actual problem and solution to Theo so now he can get Pieter back in line and give Loek a solution.

Yesterday evening I couldn't get a connection to America. Both iTool, for my main site, and Mailbank, my backup site, are based in America so I couldn't upload. That is why I uploaded to the free web space (50MB) I got with my free account at Freegates.be . This is in Belgium itself. I tried to mail the Gang but that mail passed trough both Mailbank (my mail account) and iTool (the Gang mail list) which I couldn't reach.

This morning I did send the mail from the office (after the company mail server finally got up) and just then noticed that the Freegates.be site was unavailable. It looks like all connections to and from Belgium were down. (the office is in the Netherlands).

Adios