Even IT can be funny from time-to-time. These are a few things we've experienced that made us laugh:

• We built a java webstart application for a client that involved three elements, a web start tool for creating student online tests, another webstart tool that allowed students to complete tests both backed by a web application to manage tests and view results. It was our first webstart application and by all accounts a complex one. I must admit that we were expecting to have to field quite a few support queries on deployment but, despite over 40,000 uses, there was just the one that came in about two years after we went live. Someone had inadvertently shut-down the windows service that managed the MySQL backend, the problem the client's IT support people had was that the app had given them zero problems and they'd just plain forgotten what server it was on.