Can't live with them, can't live without them

I need to be quick today.

So, as you can tell, I haven't posted in a while. You see, when the teachers (and students) got back to school last Monday after X-mas break, none of us could log on. Apparently, over the vacation, something had happened to the server. Well, as a result, we were without computers for the entire week. Apparently, many of our computers were infected with all sorts of viruses. (In fact, one computer had 2000 different forms of malicious code.)

You would think that this wouldn't be a problem, but noooooooo.... See the computer guys suggest we save all our files on the server so that we can access them any time, and it will be backed up daily so no data will be lost. But you see, they forgot to mention that if the server goes down, yes our data is not lost, but we won't have access to it.

As a result, I spent nearly 2 to 3 times the energy preparing lessons because I had to redo everything that I had already prepared. At least I had some data accessible to me because I did bring my laptop with me.

Well, the staff computers are up and running, and we hope to have the student work stations up and running by the end of tomorrow. But even though we are up and running, data was still lost, though not from the server. All my bookmarks that I had accumulated over the past few semesters were deleted in the process to get my computer up and running. Also, email that was sent to my school account is now gone. So important dates and meetings have been erased.

But at least we think things are working.