Jon Todd

This is a Story:

Intro:So apparently there is now a professor at Bowdoin named John Todd ain’t that just swell. Last night I recieved the following email from an IT member who will remain nameless for the fear that the enraged throng that frequent my blog may send nasty flames due to the unjustice which follows:

Totally sweet quote:

Hi John:
Nice talking with you. See you next week Monday, 1:00 pm in my office. I am in the 16th floor of Coles Tower. Enter the dorm side of Coles, and take the elevator to the 15th floor. Go through the “CD” door, up stairs, turn left, and to end of hall. I am in #16 D.

Here are the URL’s I was talking about on the phone:

1)To access your Bowdoin email, please go to:

http://webmail.bowdoin.edu

To log in, use your username (jtodd).
By the way, that username and password works on almost every system at Bowdoin.
Your Bowdoin email address is: jtodd@bowdoin.edu

2)If you haven’t done this yet, to change your password, please go to:

http://mymail.bowdoin.edu

Click on the “Passphrase Change” link on the left and follow the directions

Body:
That’s right, this is an email to me telling me how to setup and access my email. Huh, let’s think about that for a second. This means that if I were John Todd, I would be able to setup and check my email after reading this email which I read by knowing how to check and setup my email. I want you to spend atleast 10-20 minutes thinking about that.

Climax:(that’s the good part)
OK nice to have you back. So now to make this even more interesting, 2 minutes after recieving and reading this email, luckily I was at the computer when it came in, I am now unable to check or read my email. That is to say that my password no longer worked for email or any other computer at Bowdoin. So had I not checked my email right when I did, I would have no clue why my email stopped working.

Resolution(this is where you realize that in the end we’re all just mammals)
Right, so after such an injustice the most important course of action is to politely reply to the email notifying the parties of the issue at hand. This was done, and email was restored! Oh yeah and we’re all just mammals, isn’t that nifty?

The End