Daynote ,Svenson

MM-cxxix     Monday

2000-05-08

Low mist which is burnt away by the sun in about half an hour. So we are in for another hot day. later in the afternoon clouds build up and we get some short but extremely heavy showers, with thunder and lightning.

I didn't get any mail or web access yesterday evening. The strange thing is that I did get a connection to my ISP but I couldn't reach any sites or servers. So I could not upload my pages or download my mail. Heck, I couldn't change my mail to forwarding to Venlo again.

And now, here in Venlo, the mail server is locked down. For virus clearing and to prevent new spreads. The viral love letter, when opened not only deleted a lot of files and spread itself, it also seems to have scheduled itself via the registry so it would run again at startup. A lot of computers have been disconnected from the network and are being checked and cleaned. Talk about lost productivity.
Love is in the air.

Nobody loves me. Well not really but I never got a ILY mail at home and the single one I got at work was from the program that sends us reminders about internal courses at RealSoftware.

At work.
The mail server finally got connected up again at around 11h00 and I promptly received all the mail I had sent out on Friday back as 'Undeliverable'. Some of it has become irrelevant (like the ILY source sent to Phil Hough) but some has to be resent.

And also at work.
At about 16h00 the power fails. Not just to the company but to about half the town. That also means no trafic lights.

Power went out at about 16h00 and by 16h30 was not restored so I went home more than an hour earlier than usual. I did however get home as usual at close to eight. Two reasons. Hitting the road early landed me in peak trafic. And due to the heavy thunderstorms trafic was a stop and go affair with a few drivers slowing down for the rain and thus blocking up the highway. .