bit rot
Amazing how some technology left out Friday after confirming it works, heck it had been working the same way since July. Seems to grow fungus or mold, or simply atrophy and no longer work after the weekend is over.
Like making JBoss talk to MySQL luckily trial and error correction is made nearly impossible because it takes a good 10 minutes for each round trip on the cycle. 
September 27th, 2005 at 11:38 am
[...] It’s so much better to actually try and figure out what your problem is instead of assuming and then blaming it on solar flares. Turns out I corrupted some data which wasted about a half a day of my time. [...]