Lost in Dreams…

I decided to take a day off and spend some time in my alcove to regenerate. The result was the page updations. Managed to post some photographs, links and a disclaimer (thanks to Herche’s Blog Disclaimer). Also created a Google Analytics account for this blog.

I was just going around my WordPress Dashboard, when I found to my surprise that I had 3 subscribers.

1. adol77dai51
2. alina77vere9uk
3. ralyjones25

Now wait a minute, I don’t remember these id’s nor they look familiar. Gleefully I was hoping that they were my secret admirers, but curiosity killed the cat. One Google search for these ids and you realise that these are spam bots.

Sometimes I wish Google was not that efficient….

I do not remember the location or state of mind I was in, when I got this call… This call originated some 2400kms away from my present location and informed me that “My system is not working !!! Mails are not going out from my Outlook. Please check and solve it !!! ” Before I could react, the call came to its end, leaving me open-mouthed.

I am planning to take a short course on IT Telepathy.

The word “Jargon” according to Oxford means “words or expressions used by a particular group that are difficult for others to understand.”

So what do you do when somebody asks you to tell something in layman terms when that subject can be explained only with jargons ?  Our E-mail system was shifted from one server to another and things didn’t go as expected… We had some SMTP relay issues, SSL authentication problems for POP3 and IMAP, DNS resolving issues with the new server… How to contain all these terms in layman terms ?

All I could manage was “There are some issues with the system and we are trying to solve it… and we are doing our best”…. But people are not satisfied with these terms and they expect you to teach them TCP/IP in 15 mins and that too in layman terms…

I guess I should go the way of Scott Adams…