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I've Had Bad Days At The Office...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.

That’s what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents’ biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.

There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable.

Thanks Cheryl for making me feel that when I screw up, there's always somebody who's done it worse.

Posted by Jake on 03/20/07 @ 09:24 AM
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Dave Goodman said on 03/20/07 @ 10:38 AM:
I've always avoided doing software development for medical applications, because I'd hate to have a bug in my code defibrillate someone to death. If I've left a bug in my code, the worst that can happen is that someone's game crashes. :)

Jake said on 03/20/07 @ 10:47 AM:
Oh come on...a crashing game could be life or death for somebody.

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