Navel gazing is for pretty bloggers
I had thought about doing a navel gazing post, a straight and dry diary-type entry about what I did on the weekend.
I could tell you about how I lost the ticket to DJ Hyper’s show on Friday night at Ambar, how I drove into the city during Friday lunch to get another ticket, and how the show ended up disappointing, and how Simon, Lydia and I left early.
I could tell you that how a system administrator’s job is like a fireman’s - when there’s no fire, it’s actually very mind-numbing. But there was such a fire on Friday when we lost connection to ALL our production servers, those that serve customers and their applications. I could tell you that I drove to our data-centre through peak-hour traffic in the city around 4pm. I could tell you how I spent 2.5 hours in the data-centre trying to work out the kinks, listening to the drone of hundreds of computers whilst catching glimpses of smiling office types walking to the nearest pub.
I also could tell you that I had to go into the office on Saturday to finish off what I was doing Friday afternoon before I had to rush away to our ailing servers. Yeah Friday was a total drag on the start of the weekend which was only salvaged by copious drinking and Anne Savage at The Rise.
So yeah, I could have done a navel gazing post but I remembered - only pretty female bloggers can do that.

I came to that conclusion based on the search-engine traffic to my posts about Dawn Yang and Daphne Teo - two female Singaporean bloggers whose entries are light and fluffy like cotton-candy. Though they must be doing some things right to get insane traffic and to continually get people to search for them on the Internet right?
I mean I haven’t written about them for a while and I’m still getting daily traffic to these posts below, listed in chronological order. And yes, this is a cynical ploy to hook in more traffic.
Daphne Teo
Dawn Yang
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thus, you get traffic because you blog about pretty bloggers ?
My office is in a technopark and our neighbour is a disaster recovery/data centre. I imagine there are rows of computer servers inside the big space. Aiya, being stuck in a data centre for few hours is certainly no fun!
BTW, Dawn is also one of the star bloggers in our Straits Times e-zine. http://www.stomp.com.sg/starblog/
herman: correct! Hahahah! You got me.
blur ting: yup, rows and rows of racks with computers - you can imagine the drone of those, plus the air-conditioning. Not a fun place on a Friday afternoon especially when it has tinted bullet-proof glass looking out at happy ppl walking by!
I know about Dawn’s postings on Stomp. Her work there is actually less fluffy than the stuff she writes on her own blog.
Seriously, though they are babes, I didn’t really follow their stuff.
I would rather read XX blog for a good laugh.
They`re both really pretty and while you`re neither pretty (:X Sorry!!) nor female, I think you could get away with navel gazing posts yourself. Once people know and like you, everything you have to say will seem interesting/newsworthy!
PS. I know how you feel but the perks are free-flow milo and discreetly looking through the boss’ surf history/etc when you get uber bored?
Lupin: hehe true that. XX does provide a bit more laughs.
Yuuka: you got a point about making ppl wanting to read about a person’s daily minutiae. Though it helps if you can spin the mundane into something interesting.
As for the perks of a syst admin, after you’ve established your boss’ surfing habits the thrill tends to die down.
Hey man, good to see that the more things change, the more they stay the same
Like you said man, doing something, is better then doing nothing.
BigZapfer: yeah the mind needs stimulation.