View From the Bushes

This morning an electrician was working in the server room at work and I guess he drilled through a wire, or something like that -- I'm a little fuzzy on the details. In any case, he ended up tripping a breaker which turned off the power to quite a few critical systems. Fortunately it was at 7:20 in the morning and not 4:20 in the morning, because that could have been bad. As it was, there was quite a bit of excitement when I first got in, but it was over fairly quickly.

Of course we have uninterruptible power supplies in case the power goes out, but somehow it seems that whenever the power does go out it's in some weird way (like the one I just described) and the backup systems we have in place fail to work. I guess it's just one more case of no plan surviving contact with the enemy. Speaking of plans, I don't know if I mentioned this, but over the weekend I finally got my office to the point where I was able to say that I was done. Of course, it didn't completely go according to plan; I still have a quite a few things to do, but I had cleaned out all the boxs so I figured that had to be a pretty major accomplishment.

Before I sign off, here's a link to a BBC story that gives a pretty good overview of what they've found on Titan so far.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross