Mon Jan 05 2004 at 14:55:32
(people names have been changed, place names have not)
I was at work when it all began. One of the interesting things was the slow way in which the magnitude of the thing dawned on us. I was sitting at my desk angrily clicking on a widget in a program I had written that wasn't doing what it was supposed to. Boredom and frustration had combined to the point where vengefully clicking on the program until it crashed seemed like a perfectly sensible way to deal with a piece of buggy software. I had been clicking for about thirty seconds when the power went out. For half a second I thought I had blown a fuse in the office with all my clicking. I know enough about computers to know that that was a patently ridiculous idea, but also enough to know that sometimes the truth when it comes to computers is patently ridiculous.