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Macchu Picchu's Shoulder

Few hours ago, around 1:30 in the morning, having just deployed a release, we were all ready to go home tired and work-harrassed, when suddenly, ALL the applications we support were no longer accessible. Oh god, the mayhem, we're like laughing and panicking at the sametime, log-in here, log-in there, what what what what! Would your mind really function at 2:00 in the morning and you're working more than 12 hours straight? In the midst of all the heart stopping drama (as if), we were wondering why we were not hearing anything from our customers. Hmmm. I contacted Darold from Peru, my teammate Nikki's favorite user.

Me ...    hi darold!
Me ...    everything okay with <application name>? :)
Darold ...    hello
Darold ...    yes
Darold ...    very good
Darold ...    is a beautiful product
Darold ...    not perfect
Darold ...    but beautiful
Me...    we love you darold, you're our beautiful customer!
Me...    so you can access it?
Darold...    dont know =D
Me...    hahahahaha!
Darold ...    why?
Darold ...    is something wrong?
Me ...    bad news, there's something wrong with the network....
Darold ...    ahhh =(
Darold ...    shit happens Rose
Darold ...    sorry for the french =D

Shit happens, but there is comfort everywhere. :) Happy Christmas, everyone!

Sleeping Beauty No More

Punyemas, pagod na akish. I hate working! I hate overtime! I hate it that I'm a workaholic! I wanna have a job where I work at fix hours then I go home and play and meet with friends and have coffee/tea, go to the movies, read a good book before I turn off the lights to sleep.

Tulog na nga lang, di ko pa magawa....THIS HAS TO CHANGE! Give a little bit, give a little bit of your love to me...

The coolest change.

Let me see if I can describe it. It is like -

- drinking sweetened iced tea for the longest time then drinking green tea and finding out it tastes much better and you wonder how you could have missed that.
- cleansing.
- a mix between adventure and mischief.
- running and running for some time now and then you hear a whistle somewhere telling you- hey, it's okay to stop now. The gasping of air, the momentary rest and then..that glorious sigh of relief!
- not knowing whether to step inside an intriguing store or not, wondering if the attention the sales lady would give you could force you to buy something you don't want to. but you went in anyway.
- the choice you have long waited to be given to you so you could feel how it's like to choose.
- suddenly a new day for you, with a different sunbeam, a greener green, like it's the start of good surprises.

Functionality, with a capital Y.

Making it work is the first priority - efficiency can come later. ever experienced a project fail because everyone's worried about efficiency, speed, user interface, etc but forgotten about making it work?

- Rick Marshall on xml-dev mailing list