Explosions, Fires, and Birds

July 16, 2008

Monday was planned to be our release day of a new version of Viviti, but it was not to be. An underground explosion and fire took down a chunk of the power in downtown Vancouver, and while the water cooled generators worked, they stopped working in a hurry when the Vancouver Fire Department tapped into the water supply to put out the fire. Oops.

Tuesday we were getting ready to release in the afternoon when a bird flew into a transformer a block or two away from our offices, killing power to the building. Fortunately, our office buildings have nothing to do with our servers so this was mostly just a minor inconvenience, but pushed us to Wednesday.

Today we managed to make it through the entire day without anything exploding or catching fire, so we've pushed up the new build!

 

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Wow, I feel bad for the bird who flew into the transformer. Ouch!

Indeed! I have it from a reliable source (who walked past it) that the bird was very crispy.

Haha, must've tasted like chicken then. Well I'm just glad that Viviti is up and running.

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