>>>>Last week there was a big blackout all over the in my country from morning to evening and they still don't know why? :))
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>>>>Maybe this's about their software. Maybe a bug. You cannot know software bugs sometimes even after occured... :))
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>>>Or it's just somebody testing it's newest little tool.
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>>>The Netherlands where down several days ago too.
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>>>Marketing for UPS/ APU
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>>>;)
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>>Must be the season.
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>> A cable fire yesterday in London has blacked out a lot of the West End. I just walked up there and flames and smoke are still pouring out of the ground and a lot of portable generation capacity is being parked in streets round the area.
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>Got an email yesterday from one of the EDI partners I have to deal with. They had to move to their disaster recovery centre at IBM - don't know if they are fully operational yet.......

yes its a lot of disruption and I'm sure a lot of businesses will be dusting off their recovery plans even if they aren't directly affected.
I cycled down the back of some offices off kingsway this morning and they where taped off by the police with lots of office workers wandering around not quite sure where to go