Anthony's Blog

I was sitting at my Mac today, reading (work) emails, when suddenly Kablooiii !!, my Mac rebooted.

I sat there feeling stunned and surprised: on rare occasions a program will crash, but a complete Mac crash is virtually unheard of. Maybe it overheated?

But no, flashing clocks revealed a power outage this morning: one that lasted about a second.

And the Age confirms it:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/falling-tree-branch-cuts-power-to-13000-in-city-20091203-k79j.html

As is typically the case: it seems as though the power companies try really hard to avoid outages in the CBD. Presumably they don't like the idea of thousands of people being caught up inside lifts and riots in the streets. So whilst the outage went for half an hour in some places, it was only a second or so here.