Missing: one university

[strange_complex]

Wow - the whole of Warwick University seems to have disappeared from the internet. Every time I try to go to any of their pages, I'm told the server can't be found. That's got to be a pretty serious balls-up, right? I'm now having visions of turning up there at the end of the Easter vacation to find nothing but a charred field of smoking ruins, a few papers fluttering pathetically in the post-nuclear breeze. And, of course, nobody could have told me, because they're all dead! Waaah!

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[keris.livejournal.com]

There was a fire in a substation somewhere, which took out the electricity for half of the university (my half), Cannon Park, the A45 traffic lights and as far out as Earlsdon. When the power came back on again, the main electrical circuits for the servers frazzled and they've spent all day trying to get that working. When I left they were starting to get some servers back online and I think things are starting to work again now. There were notices up over campus explaining this and saying staff should still come in on Monday, even if they can't do any work as they're on the tree...

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've been able to get into my email account now, so it seems things are starting to function again. I wasn't planning to come in on Monday anyway, as I'm just working from home all vacation. But how cute that they resorted to paper notices in the absence of being able to send out mass emails! Awww...

[keris.livejournal.com]

The stuck them to the car park signs, as everyone drives in an parks on central campus. Erm...