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More oncall fun

Monday was a doozy of a day and the fun continued yesterday. First, the pager went off about 5 times during a meeting. Then when someone commented on it after the meeting, I jokingly pretended to give an OfficeSpace-style...
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I’m on call this week

Yesterday, some misconfigured servers at another ISP hammered Yahoo. We actually thought it was a DOS attack. I got 393 pages in < 30 minutes. I can still hear the sound of the pager, hammered into my head. Bleargh.
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Wikipedia plugin

I had been thinking of writing this, but then I just did a search and found that someone else had already wrote it. wikipedia link plugin By enclosing a term in double square brackets, I get a quick link to it in Wikipedia....