[Bill Douglas]

Confession time. I worked at a bank and all the electronic transactions in the retail stores came through this particular computer. I was moving it from one room to another. Two cables - data in and data out. I had two big companies on standby and a count down...

I moved the computer but I had one cable coming out of the wall then back into the wall, and the other cable out of the computer and back into the computer. The funds transfer people and visa+Mastercard where mystified by it wasn't working when it came back up. After about five minutes of sweating bullets I spotted my error and changed the cables around.

"Hurray, it's back on line, what did you do?" I told them I reseated the connections and it sprang back into life. I accepted their thanks and gratitude for saving the day - having thought to reseat the connections a few times until it came right.