Over at WordPress, their server was down. This was their message. Rather cute.
Confessions Of A ServerOH MY! Life is so unfair! What did I do wrong to be born a server in this day and age? I could have been a nice simple bicycle that people happily rode around on all day. But no, I'm stuck inside this metal case serving web pages instead. I never even see the light of day and all I can hear is the rush of the air-conditioning!
Well, no more! I'm relaxing here with a cup of tea and a biscuit until someone shows me some love and attention.
It never takes them long to fix me when I kick up a fuss so check back in a few minutes and I'll be chugging along merrily again.!
Signed,
The WordPress.com web server
(WordPress.com - where even the machines have life!)
This reminds me of the time I was on hold with Jet Blue, back in the days when they were essentially brand new, maybe five years ago. Their phone muzak was peppered, as many airlines' are, by periodic marketing messages in a chirpy, artificially upbeat female voice. I was waiting with decreasing patience when the robo-lady on the other end of the line said, "May we just say that your hair is looking fantastic today?" I immediately pledged allegiance to Jet Blue and flew them whenever I could. (Now I hear they're jacking up rates and packing in seats, so who knows where I'll go for my hold-message ego boosts?)
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Have you ever seen the Bloglines plumber? (Full pic here.) It all makes you feel just a tiny bit better about being annoyed.
My best hold-music experience was back in the 80s when I was on hold with WordPerfect. (My mom's office ran on WordPerfect.) The usual music played, and then a DJ came on and started talking about the weather in Utah. I figured they just had tuned into a local radio station. Then the DJ said, in lieu of a traffic report: "It looks like there are 5 people on line for printer help -- probably a ten minute wait there -- and 3 people online for installation..." They had hired a DJ just for the hold music! That was cool.
Comment #1 :: link :: March 15, 2006 10:28 AMAh, WordPerfect. I loved that program. Stuck with it for as long as I possibly could.
Anyone else have that piece of software you just don't want to let go of?
Comment #2 :: link :: March 15, 2006 10:00 PM
