Firewall
A late firewall change brings the applications down, followed by a room full of people who remember touching nothing. The timestamps are less forgetful.
← ALL MUSIC
IT / EVERYDAY CHAOS
Reboots & Regrets
Heartbreak. Downtime. Probably DNS.
Country songs for the people who inherit the spreadsheet, answer the phone, and get called after somebody has already bought the software.
MARCH 17, 2026 / 11 TRACKS / ZERO DAY RECORDS
The country setting turns everyday IT frustration into familiar stories of blame, dependence, loss, and bad decisions. A password vault becomes a heartbreak song; a production failure becomes a dispute over whose machine it worked on. The development kept the genre consistent while changing the delivery from song to song. The joke works because the human problem is recognizable before the technical punchline arrives.
Track by track
THE RECORD, IN ORDER.
Tech Support
Being the family computer person turns every quiet Sunday into an unpaid support shift. Open tabs, sleeping screens, printers, and passwords arrive at the same doorstep.
Phisherman
A frustrated phisher has the stolen password but keeps meeting another authentication step. The scammer discovers yesterday’s easy login no longer gets the same result.
Worked
The build passed on the developer’s machine, which apparently settles the matter. Production failures become an argument about whose environment counts.
Spreadsheet
A little tracking workbook grows into business-critical infrastructure. Its macros outlive their author and nobody dares rebuild the thing that runs the company.
Plug
Anything with a power cord becomes IT’s responsibility. Coffee pots, thermostats, and elevators join the help-desk queue while facilities remains a theoretical concept.
Need
An urgent request arrives without a workflow, specification, or agreed outcome. The developer is then blamed for failing to deliver requirements nobody supplied.
Reboot
An incident gathers logs, tests, and anxious experts before returning to the oldest help-desk question. A familiar power cycle gets the last word.
Vault
A breakup becomes an identity-recovery incident when a partner wipes the password vault. The usual country-song losses become reset forms and locked accounts.
DNS
The application, database, routes, and firewall look fine. The investigation finally reaches the zone-file typo everyone was certain could not be the cause.
Software
The software has already been bought. IT is invited into the conversation just in time to inherit the consequences.