things i don't miss.

things i don't miss:
the cold war.

I just watched "threads", a bbc docudrama about what would happen if the cold war turned hot, focusing on sheffeild, england. i never did see "the day after", but apparently this is even bleaker. i can't say for sure, but it's pretty fucking bleak. it's out on google video and is a bit under two hours long.

I'll take the risk of a terrorist attack that might kill a few thousand people over having to rely on people like stanislav petrov and vasili arkhipov to save the world. (these were not the only near misses)

peace on earth, good will towards men.

okay, then

had to drive into the office. but now i'm back home and everything is working as it should.

peeve

sigh. the thing that's worse than something running without a UPS is something running with a so-called "UPS" that dies when line power dies and doesn't come back up when line power is re-established. i'm gonig to relabel it "IPS"

mutter mutter kvetch.

home again now, anyways.

actually, fairly mellow as outages go. most things came back up when power came back. i had to fsck a couple of machines (which required me to bug other people trying to get the root password) but i figured nobody was going to be using them till tomorrow so if they weren't up, oh well.