We are sure the webberized version worked fine when the boys tried Everyone hoped the problem was just THEM, or that the computers It is an especially poignant moment for the Dowbrigade, as we <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Sitting in our office at 7:30 in the morning, waiting for the shit to hit the fan. The Bright Boys in IT have moved our academic program over to a File Maker Pro database with a browser-based interface. Unlike the staff, … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/netdowns.jpg\")
<\/em>Sitting
\n in our office at 7:30 in the morning, waiting for the shit to hit the
\n fan. The Bright Boys in IT have moved our academic
\n program over to a File Maker Pro database with a browser-based interface.
\n Unlike the staff, who use Filemaker every day, faculty only use it
\n twice a semester, to write midterm and final evaluations.
\n The idea was, with a browser based interface we could work from home.<\/p>\n
\n it out in their alpha phase, but today is the last day of the first
\n half of the semester (Spring Break starts tomorrow – go figure) and
\n last night when all 32 faculty got on-line at the same time to write
\n their evals, the whole thing broke.<\/p>\n
\n in their offices would be unaffected, so the office is crowded with edgy
\n irate teachers swilling caffeine and hovering in the hallways, waiting
\n for the techies to come in and feel their wrath.<\/p>\n
\n are teaching in a special, intensive, six-week program and so today
\n is OUR LAST DAY teaching until June. OUR students will not be
\n coming back following break. And good riddance. There have
\n been numerous incidents over the
\n last
\n six
\n weeks which have shaken our dedication to the vocation but which we
\n have been unable to blog due to our strict policy against writing anything
\n about current students. Perhaps, now that they are EX-students that
\n will change, but give us a few days to recover and think about it.<\/p>\n\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"