Technology Ghosts

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I've been employed in technology since 1999, and I've been using it heavily since I got my Commodore 64 in 4th grade (did I just prove that I'm ancient?  Oh well...).  I am now irrefutably convinced of one thing:

There are Technology Ghosts.

I have very clear anecdotal evidence for this conclusion:

  • While doing a routine time synchronization, my domain controller decided that it was exactly 7 months in the future.  This did very bad things to the whole system.  No errors were recorded, and the target sync server is fine.
  • While doing a hot swap of a battery, all power ceased to the primary servers.  Note that the same hot swap had been performed with no problems merely twenty minutes before.
  • For no known reason, the entire company's computer systems slow down between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM every business day.  We can see the slowdown occur, but the reason behind the slowdown remains unknown, as everything looks clean.
Perhaps you don't understand much of the terminology above, but that's okay.  I have other examples, but believe me when I say that these are quite odd things to have happen all at one computer site.

I wonder if there's a reason for the Technology Ghosts.  Was a server brutally slain in the data center 20 years ago?  Are the computers still bitter about the switch from WordPerfect to Word? Maybe the computers don't like that there are windows that open and occasionally leak in their room?

Whatever the reason, anyone know a good Technology Exorcist?

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we should just go back to using parchment. that would eliminate any mysteries or confusion.

Now, there's an idea! :)

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