TAN: Working Long into the Night

Had another long day sequestered in the DTP office at work on the Pixel Corps website. Stepped out to the Royal Chef for a bite of lunch. Back at the keyboard for the rest of the afternoon and early evening. The internet connection died again around 8 p.m. The others headed out to what was billed as an all meat restaurant. I headed off to an Internet cafe to try and get some emails off. I had also hoped to get the revised website sent off to San Francisco. This did not come to pass as the Internet cafe was using a dial-up connection and the staff were unwilling to get my computer hooked up to it. I spent an hour there banging out emails on a keyboard with a sticky “F” key. As I was working with Macromedia Contribute to get the directions right for Dave Hurley, I noticed that all of the navigation disappeared from the pages I edited. This caused me a great deal of concern and drastically changed the nature of the emails I sent.
At the end of my hour I headed back to the office to collect the rest of my bags. I tried the connection there again and was pleasantly surprised to find it working. Spent the next few hours trying to get to the bottom of my errant navigation bar. Finally figured out that with the webserver on my computer the line breaks in the PHP part of the page were being deleted, causing the the PHP instructions to break. On my regular server the problem did not exist. It took a tremendous amount of time to get enough of the site uploaded to test it out.
Eventually folks in California came online and I was able to chat with Alex. Got it settled that I would update the pages for the time being and the training for the team leaders would be rescheduled for the end of January. By this point if was after 3 a.m. and the thought of hunting for a taxi did not seem very wise. I pulled up a few chairs and settled in for a bit of sleep.