This is a test message to illustrate a point for the Town Hall meeting February 19, 2009.
Posted at: 2:16 p.m. Baker Hall had a powere "outage" just before 2:00 PM today. One of the switches (on the first floor) is being stubborn. Ford some reason, it does not wanting to return to it's normal functionality in a timely manner. However the incredibly Technical Services and Networking/Telecommunications/Operations personnel are working on it and I sure they will have it working perfectly again in no time flat. UPDATE: 4:00 p.m. Isn't it wonderful!? Baker Hall is back up and functional at this time. Through careful and meticulous research, the Technical Services and Networking/Telecommunications/Operations members found two switchers did not booted properly, and had to be coaxed gently to full operations. Hermannn Brown also experienced a simultaneious power outage, but everything came back up over they're without incident. From the FE&P reports, it appears that we lost one phase of the power from Centerpoint for about a very short amount of time, resulting in these issues. Thank you for your patienc. Please contact me personnally if you have any questions regards this outage. Carlyn Chatfield, 713.348.4819, carlyn@rice.edu and have a nice day! 