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So I'm tapping away at my keyboard about 20 minutes ago, working on some CSS buttons for one of my own websites.
Just about to save, update some HTML, and refresh my browser when...
...wait for it...
...the whole suburb loses power. Complete blackout and I can't see a thing. 
It's not even raining, let alone storming with lightning! 
So the family grabs some candles, lights them, and we all laugh a bit, but then a few minutes later the power comes back on.
What was that all about?!
modified 22-May-14 7:22am.
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Must have been the Spanish Inquisition
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Or the butterflies in Peru! 
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Exactly! Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!
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Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Probably a solar flare playing havoc with power before it melts us all tomorrow. Either that, or a power cut.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Quick, change the CSS back to the way it was before and act like you don't know what happened!!! 
[EDIT] And next time, try to be a more careful coder! [EDIT]
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Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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But did you save? You said you were just about to....
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Nope.
But fortunately I save regularly and only lost about 5 mins of work.
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So you're living up to your username. That's good.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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But being careful doesn't mean I don't make mistakes!
It just means that I'm more at fault when I do make them...
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Nope. If he was being careful he'd either be using a laptop or have an UPS attached to his desktop; in either case he wouldn't've lost power. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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What! No UPS???
We just had a momentary outage last night - the whole house went dark except for the TV and the PCs that are on UPS. Now I just have to put the clocks on UPSs, of course, Grandfather just kept ticking away - didn't phase him at all.
Started using UPSs in my prior home which was within a mile of the substation that also fed the Motorola chip plant. Early very Monday morning Motorola would turn on the ovens and cause a brown out for a brief minute (I happened to be on my system at the time) and it crashed my system until I got the UPS. Never had a problem after that.
Dave.
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Your neighbourhood blew a fuse.
The sum of the power usage became to much for the substation.
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Somebody didn't read the sign![^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It would have been the code that he was doing that blew up the fuse 
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CarefulCoder wrote: So I'm tapping away at my keyboard about 20 minutes ago, working on some CSS
buttons for one of my own websites.
Just about to save, update some HTML, and
refresh my browser when...
...wait for it...
".......then the page looked exactly how I wanted first time! Now you don't get that very often when working with CSS/HTML."
That is what you really wish for, but then you woke up and it was a dream. 
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Now THAT would have been MORE than unexpected!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Most of the time, yes.
However I'd only made five minute's worth of changes - mostly very small size adjustments and color changes.
It was kinda guaranteed to work.
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Now there's a tale to tell the grand-kids on a long winter's evening. I think you should write it down somewhere.
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viaducting wrote: I think you should write it down somewhere.
The Lounge, for instance? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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viaducting wrote: Now there's a tale to tell the grand-kids on a long winter's evening
... by candlelight.
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Oh, sorry, I had to microwave briefly my coffee.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Which country is this?
In India where I live, this is quite common, so we have Inverters in most houses - it is also called a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply). That gives a 2-3 hour backup till the main lines are restored.
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An inverter converts DC to AC and is different from a UPS.
/ravi
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