Website is down!
About a year ago, I used to work for a small web-design company in the "Costa del Dosh". It was, and still is I understand, a small, dynamic company etc that required creative thinkers; not least of all if/when a server or website would go AWOL because of a data centre outage or, even worse a botched upgrade.

So, one monday we get an email from one rather pissed off client saying "The fecking website is down you cunts! Explain or dieeeee!".
A quick investigation revealed that, in fact, that would be because someone overwrote a production database with a test "pie" database accidentally the Friday before, and therefore completely our fault, so the boss replies with the following email after a swift restore of the last weekend backup, and I quote...


"Hi Bob

Yes this is your access code for the barbone network config which we have recently installed on the apache server which will allow you access to the root account with full access rights to our token ring jargonizer. If you receive this email again, make sure your random bottomiser is preconfigured with TAT optimization as standard.

Thanks,

Fred"

And yes, it worked too. No more questions asked.
( slippery doctore, Fri 11 Jul 2008, 10:52, Reply)