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Millennium Bug pt 2

Posted by The Echo Editor on December 11, 2006 10:43 AM | 

Today you'll open your Echo like any other day and browse through the stories and pictures.

Little do you know of the drama and tension that went on behind-the-scenes in Echo HQ this weekend.

On Saturday, as our staff recovered from their Christmas party hangovers, our IT department embarked on one of the most scariest operations since the Millennium Bug struck fear into offices throughout the land.

For technical reasons far beyond my understanding, the electricity supply to the whole of Thomson House was switched off on Saturday night for 12 hours.

This was the first time that this has ever happened and no-one quite knew if our systems would come back on.

Plans were drawn up on how we would produce today's paper if we were left without power or an editorial system. Reporters and writers were forced to work from home for the day. And a major effort kicked in on Friday and Saturday to prepare us for the big switch-off.

So we hung onto our breath as they clicked the switch back.

And what happened? Exactly like that big Millennium night when everyone had warned of a computer catastrophe, everything just clicked over and carried on working - just as normal.


 

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