I've just bumped into this cool weblog called "Title n." and found out about this System Administrator Appreciation day, celebrated every last Friday of July.
Aren't you tired of your users saying "What did you do *again* ? It used to
work fine until IT messed up with something..."
Wouldn't that be great if - for a change - your users came to you to thank
you, to give you some chocolates or a small gift from ThinkGeek, like a Valentine Day for
Sysadmin (since it's common knowledge that Sysadmins don't have girlfriends or
boyfriends anyway ;-))?
The sysadminday website not only makes a lot of sense ;-) but it's also a great collection of links to funny stories like "Advice to employees on the proper use of the System Administrator's valuable time" or the famous "Techtales"!
Well, maybe you have to be a sysadmin or a complete geek to appreciate that kind of humour but I just love them, which puts me in one of the 2 categories, or maybe both ;-) !
I
have mentioned the tenki.jp site before,
when there was the last major earthquake in Japan a few months ago.
However, at that time, I hadn't had a look at the other pages, such as the one
that gives the weather forecast for
Tokyo for example.
Most of the time, it's very useful and accurate, as long as you can read
some Japanese. I especially like the small icon which tells you whether you
can leave your laundry outside for drying or not and how long that would
take!
That extra bit of information is just so funny to me, yet I find it also very
handy!
This morning however, I was wondering whether I should take my laundry out: it was amazingly hot and sunny but when I checked the website, it was saying that it wasn't a good day to do the laundry. I thought "Ha! They can be wrong sometimes too!" but left without taking my laundry out because I was already running late for the office and something inside me was telling me to always trust the Japanese weather forecast...
Well, a few hours later, just out of nowhere, it started to rain... I have
to admit that somehow, Japanese have developed a high sense of wheather
forecast (there's even a TV channel dedicated to that) and they are just so
accurate!
The same thing happened to me last week when I was looking at the predictions
on Yahoo for
Yakushima (actually Kagoshima, the closest main city), just because I thought
it'd be easier to read a page in English.
While Yahoo was announcing thunderstorms for the whole week, tenki.jp showed a
nice and sunny day. Again, they were quite right and I had a wonderful weather
for my trip.
Anyway, the bottom line is that I'll just forget about my own pride and so-called ability to foresee the weather changes and rely more on some Japanese who spend their days doing the same thing :)
In case you still don't want to believe, just ask my friend Jean-Paul whether his shoes have dried today ;-)
