May 01, 2002

Sleep Would Be Nice

Sleep would be nice.

CD-R is a great way to back up work in progress, or even work from the recent past. Remember this. A client called yesterday and said he wanted the the site I developed 6 months ago to go live as soon as possible. I go fishing for my backup CDs, dutifully labeled with easy-to-read names like "Site Backups."

The one site I needed was never backed up. Not on CD, not on floppy, not to be found on the hard drive, not even on the servers. Nowhere.

Printouts are all I had to go on, and fortunately I remembered the architecture we had decided on when the site was in the final stages of presentation-layer development, leaving my wife and me to type formulas and product overviews into pages 'till the wee hours of the morning. I stayed up 'till 4:00AM. Two hours of sleep before I had to be on the bus to get to the job that makes a house payment possible. OCR would have been great, if the printouts hadn't been so marked up and redlined from the last visit with the client just before September 11, 2001.

The site's ready to roll. I'm ready to crash.

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz.

Posted by MEK at May 1, 2002 03:00 PM