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Sunday, February 13, 2005

Blackout

Imagine my surprise this morning when I was awakened by silence. Yes the worst thing ever had happened. My computers were off. How had this happened. It was 12.30pm and I doubted anyone was up to cause this.

Instantly I was in panic. "There goes my uptime stats!" I thought, my poor machines turned off without a proper reboot. I hoped they were ok.

After the initial panic I calmed, but found myself unable to do ANYTHING!. I couldn't shower, as the boiler measure the demand through electronics, I couldn't have breakfast as the cooker is electric, I couldn't have a cuppa, couldn't write my blog - nothing.

I couldn't believe how dependant I was on electricty and how trusting I was in the national grid to provide power to me.

So I sat there in disbelief for about 15 minutes. Until I realised that I could be waiting all day, I got dressed unshowered and left the house.

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