Thoughts in a Pensieve

Well, I was half right. The reason my web server at school/work wasn't working was because of a stinkin Novell server. But it wasn't because it just wasn't working. I forgot to re-enter one line of information. Oh well, I suppose that's life. try it know folks it's live, But that don't mean it's pretty. I am going to be in charge of the website next year, or at least partly in charge, as it will fall on the shoulders of Kelloggsville Public Schools Tech support Department. We will work on prettying things up throughout the year.


So to answer the question you have if you read the title of this post, the first dumb thing I did was a collective thing with my brother in law. At church we are on the tech team for running the light board every 4 weeks or so. We've been doin' this for a while, as a team, Joe has been doin' this for a few years. Well, Thursday night practice we couldn't get anything to work. the board and the computer just weren't controlling the lights. Well, they weren't turning on. We could however control the movable lights. Not a lot of good without beams of light coming out of them. It took us a half hour of trouble shooting, and then one person asked the simple question, "Is the Master Slider supposed to be all the way down?" DUH!!.

Who decided to put something like that on the board anyway. Seriously why would you want to have a slider that can do a massive blackout. I can understand having a blackout programmed into the show, but why have a slider that overrides all lights and shuts them down. Well, maybe if one light caught fire or something you might want to shut off all the lights at once... but still that would just incite panic with the audience.

I guess I can't criticize a teacher for claiming that their printer won't work and it turns out it's either off, or there is no paper in the tray.