I would like to state for the record that running Groupwise is preferable to running Outlook. Along the same lines, death by beheading is preferable to death by starvation.

Corporate email is having all kinds of trouble this week. I’m certain that it’s a problem I’ve had with Groupwise in the past, namely that one corrupt message in the processing queue can bring down the entire server. As of this writing, incoming mail is sporadic, outgoing mail doesn’t seem to be working (although Corporate claims that it should be) and there’s no way to know when things will be back to normal.

In addition to that bit of jolly good fun, the T1 that carries the streaming audio as well as data to and from the kgon.com machines here in the building had another spate of strangeness this morning. The problem seems to have solved itself, but I have the phone number of someone at Northwest Link if it goes bad again. Once again, if the T1 goes down then this website is useless.

My ongoing task for the day is to rebuild the computer for the west conference room. Its hard drive failed in the classic click-of-death fashion. This sucks pretty hard, since it had all of the Panja programming software installed as well as the Smartboard drivers and various other nifty software and data. Grr. I hate relying on spinning metal disks for data storage almost as much as I hate relying on flimsy plastic strips wrapped around spindles for data backup.