[spansoa]

It's times like this that force us to remind ourselves how reliant we are on critical services like these. On one hand, we can celebrate (Internet snow-day!) but on the other we are forced to shop around for alternatives too.

I often wondered how medieval the world would become if there was a huge sun flare ejection that breached the magnetic field and destroyed a bunch of data-centers. Think of the mess we'd be in!