Disaster-Recovery Lessons from Vancouver Fire - Headline WatchIf you’re working on a disaster-recovery plan, you might take a note from a massive fire in downtown Vancouver, B.C.
CBCNews.ca reports that power isn’t expected to be restored to the area until sometime Tuesday after the explosion of an underground transformer started the fire Monday. The fire created so much heat and smoke that crews from BC Hydro couldn’t inspect the damage until more than seven hours later, according to the Vancouver Sun.
E-mail provider Hushmail reports on its Web site that [name removed] its hosting company switched over to generators. But the fire department drew so much water to fight the fire that it reduced water pressure in the mains to the point that [the] water-cooled generator couldn’t operate. Then it was lights out in more ways than one.
Happily, Hushmail reports its service has since been restored.
Daily Archives: July 16th, 2008
Disaster-Recovery Lesson
Posted in IT Infrastructure, Security
House Atwitter Over Rules Governing Video, Blog Posts
Posted in Advanced Web and 'Net
More twittering…
Texas Rep. John Culberson uses his Blackberry to post blurbs about his work onto Twitter, a social networking site on the Internet. The Internet has set him free from unfair media reports and other barriers between him and his constituents, enabling him to better represent them in Congress, he says.
But Culberson’s actions have put him in possible violation of House rules that appear to ban blogging or other work-related activities on non-House Web sites.