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              Our customer wasn't the only thing down this week …
                                        
Now, about that last lesson [1] … 

I don't get drunk, but I do tend to get rather agitated when under pressure
[that statement alone should win “Understatement of the Year” Award. —
Editor], and I'm surprised there wasn't more collateral damage [where ever
you got those racks from, Smirk, keep them. They take a lot of abuse. —
Editor]. 

There's also no real evidence that was a drunk employee took down 1/3 of the
Internet earlier this week [2]. Apparently, it was major power outtage in San
Fransciso coupled with a massive backup generator failure [3] that took out
1/3 of the Internet earlier this week (link via Flutterby [4]). 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/07/27.1
[2] http://valleywag.com/tech/breakdowns/drunk-editor-kills-the-gossip-item-you-care-about-282558.php
[3] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Jul/24/generator_failures_caused_365_main_outage.html
[4] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/10296.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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