First I should say that my building was not picketed this morning, so I was able to go to work. There's a rumour going around that the TWU and BCGEU have an arrangement whereby the TWU will not picket sites where both unions have employees. Works for me if that is true.

I do support the Telus employees though. As a matter of fact, if you want to know that you could to help the Telus employees, there is a website, www.anotherwrongnumber.com, which has been set up by the employees where you can find out what you can do to help.

And now about the full moon title. Well let's just say that the backup servers at the office behaved very strangely last night: one server mysteriously "forgot" to mount a tape so a few backups just sat idle all night and had to be killed in the morning, another server just did not submit the backup jobs to the queue until 5 hours after the backup window closed! Talk about your confused servers. And there is no indication anywhere of anything having gone wrong. Hence we are blaming the problem on the full moon last night. It's either that or Murphy....

Good afternoon!