IT humor

Be thankful you don’t work in these data centers

An early ‘Happy Thanksgiving Day’ to you all. No matter whether the Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated where you live, we can all think of things to be thankful for …especially family and friends.

You can also be thankful that you don’t work in one of the data centers highlighted in our Data Center contest. Our contest runs until the end of November, so hurry, you still have time to send us your own story before the contest ends.

You can read some of the crazy tales we’ve received in my previous post that listed the first 10 contest entries — and here are 4 more below.

Data Center Contest: Disaster recovery using non-Microsoft “Windows”
Data Center Contest: Successful treatment of Mayo Clinic kill switch
Data Center Contest: Ooh, ooh that smell …can’t you smell that smell?
Data Center Contest: Oh what a tangled web we weave

Hurry, because the contest is almost over. We’ll be awarding a Nintendo Wii game system to the Data Center story judged best. But even if you don’t win first place, we’re also giving away twenty (20) copies of System Specifications and Project Manual for Data Centers (this is a $250 value!). So take a moment and send us your own data center story today. Thanks!

Community Manager

Spooky Data Center tales from our members

Not all frights take place on Halloween — many happen in the course of a normal IT workday. For a good laugh (or groan) be sure to read some of the data center stories submitted by your fellow members. Here are the first 10 entries from our Data Center contest that runs until the end of November.

Data Center Contest: Bathroom or Server room?
Data Center Contest: Saran Wrap to the rescue!
Data Center Contest: The 2:00 AM Wind Tunnel
Data Center Contest: Nuns bring network to its knees
Data Center Contest: The great Chicago flood of ‘91
Data Center Contest: Zut alors! How many cables?
Data Center Contest: Hose down those hard drives!
Data Center Contest: The Orville Redenbacher backup technique
Data Center Contest: Now that’s what I call multitasking
Data Center Contest: Last one out, turn off the lights

The Data Center story judged best will win a Nintendo Wii game system. We’re also giving away twenty (20) copies of System Specifications and Project Manual for Data Centers (a $250 value!) – so send us your own story today.

Community Manager

The first IT pro has been discovered

Okay, from my title you had to suspect this post would be a bit tongue-in-cheek, didn’t you? If you’ve worked in IT, you’re sure to get a good chuckle from this short YouTube video – and every Monday needs a good chuckle.

So take a brief break to watch The First IT Pro below and then tell me if you can relate? What’s your craziest or funniest user support story?

Community Manager

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Developers, developers, developers, developers!

No, that’s not an image of Jabba the Hutt. If you were a developer, you would have known that. It’s Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, and he’s just wild about developers. So are we and to prove it, we recently added a top-level tag just for Development.

So when you have a burning developer-related question, be sure to visit our new Development tag and ask for a helping hand. And if you possess the developer mojo, then please stop by and share your developer expertise with fellow members. This is what makes IT Knowledge Exchange a great place. You may need to ask for help in one area but provide help to others in another.

While I love developers as much as the next guy, admittedly, I cannot ‘bust a move’ like Steve Ballmer. So without further ado, here is a music video of Steve that you may enjoy. No developers were harmed in the making of this film.

Those of you involved in Microsoft development are probably familiar with SearchWinDevelopment.com (formerly SearchVB.com). If you’re not, then be sure to drop by the site today and see what Brian Eastwood and his team have to offer Windows developers. And be sure to visit our ITKE member blogs by fellow developers: Windows Presentation Foundation and Custom Application Development.

Community Manager