Friday, August 25, 2006
after surgery
I know that this is a photographic site but it is Colin's creation and, as designed, has a small and fairly intimate membership. Having read his latest medical update for Christian on their blog it would be nice to feel that, as a group, we can express support for them as she undergoes surgery. Let us hope that today's operation was successful and allows the interrupted treatment to continue in due course.
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I'll second that. Colin, Christian, and the rest of their family are in my thoughts pretty much every day. I hope that all goes for the best.
I sat and read Colin & Christian's blogs one evening this week.
The positiveness of their approach to life came through with great strength.
On a lighter note, I'm glad the cooker is OK now! :-)
I've been reading through the blogs lately as well. There's some great writing in there. Christian's post on protocols and procedures contains some incredibly insightful writing on the limits of disasters recovery plans. Having written a number of disaster recovery plans while I still did IT, the only realistic ones come down to a credit card with an insanely high max limit and a couple of smart people that know the system inside out. Few buisnesses are willing to admit that.
Thanks guys.
Post surgery recovery got off to a slow start, but it is going better now.
Matt: if you really want to do some mind expanding stuff on business disaster recovery, imagine you are in charge of a tertiary hospital where many of the patients are being kept alive by machines which have 20 minute back-up batteries. And then imagine you lose power, telecomms, heating, lighting, and water - and all back-up versions of same. It happened. I was there. You can do a lot with borrowed mobile phones and a couple of generators out of the back of a builder's truck. The solution was, as you say, a smart guy (not me, I hasten to add) who knew the place/system inside out. Nobody was hurt.
When I went back to the DR plan after the event, I couldn't find the section which involved mugging a visitor and using their phone to dial 999 for an ambulance. 500 ambulances.
I think my former employees were always a bit dissapointed in the perspective I took on DR; I ran a computer network for 25,000 students, so the worst thing that could happen was someone turning in a paper late. I could never muster much zeal for planning. No one was going to die. No one was going to lose any money, not really. Not much of a disaster there. I took my job seriously, but not that seriously.
Twenty minutes of battery backup, now that's serious. I often wonder if people realize exactly how fragile most complex systems are and how much depends on really smart, dedicated people.
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The positiveness of their approach to life came through with great strength.
On a lighter note, I'm glad the cooker is OK now! :-)
Post surgery recovery got off to a slow start, but it is going better now.
Matt: if you really want to do some mind expanding stuff on business disaster recovery, imagine you are in charge of a tertiary hospital where many of the patients are being kept alive by machines which have 20 minute back-up batteries. And then imagine you lose power, telecomms, heating, lighting, and water - and all back-up versions of same. It happened. I was there. You can do a lot with borrowed mobile phones and a couple of generators out of the back of a builder's truck. The solution was, as you say, a smart guy (not me, I hasten to add) who knew the place/system inside out. Nobody was hurt.
When I went back to the DR plan after the event, I couldn't find the section which involved mugging a visitor and using their phone to dial 999 for an ambulance. 500 ambulances.
Twenty minutes of battery backup, now that's serious. I often wonder if people realize exactly how fragile most complex systems are and how much depends on really smart, dedicated people.