Screwed up a couple things at work last week. Well, found out about the screw ups (yep, there's 2!) at least. The original decisions I made/that were made happened weeks & months ago. The first involved a big upgrade project that I feel like I somehow got to be essentially in charge of (regular readers might be able to figure out what product was involved by going back through previous posts...), and is really just the result of poor communication, although I'm not sure how much clearer things could be than having the scenario in the stupid subject line of the emails... Anyway, it feels kind of like the rug got pulled out from underneath me on this one, and I'm probably taking it a lot harder than I should, with no one really to blame (uh-huh...like that's going to last...the finger pointing has already started; just a matter of seeing how political it gets). The second screw up involved the same product, but a new installation this time. A new server had to be spec'd and built, and there's a hard deadline & tight timeline to get it done. This time my mistake was in specifying the wrong OS to be installed – amd64 instead of i386 like the product's documentation said. Double checked everything, saw the note about supported platforms in the docs, and then spec'd the amd64 version anyway. Not quite sure what I was thinking; maybe that any well-written app wont have a problem with 64-bit? maybe just thinking about the cost & upgradeability of the system instead of the specs? maybe just a total-brain-failure while reading? Not quite sure what's going to happen there...

Huh...that went longer than I intended...guess I'm still fairly upset about it. [what, like writing a blog post trolling for sympathy wasn't already a good enough indication???]

Now playing: Harry Chapin – Legends of the Lost & Found – 16 You Are the Only Song