August 15, 2003
Power outages and power hacking
Two events have occurred in the past 16 or so hours, events with inverted levels of potence. The first was the massive blackout that continues to cripple much of the Northeast. I guess everyone always knew that something like this would happen, as reports have indicated that it was predicted by various government agencies several years ago. Bush has apparently been trying to push power grid upgrade legislation through Congress with no success. But I was gratified to see that the only looting that took place happened in Canada. The Americans affected seemed to be calm, orderly, and relaxed. No riots, no looting, no increase in crime. Detroit, also affected by the blackouts, reported 88 felony arrests last night, which as it turns out is to be expected for Detroit (note to self: don't move to Detroit). When I turned on the news this morning over breakfast, I saw that the situation was improving, and people were still pretty much okay.
The other thing that happened last night was that I finally broke through the block that was impeding progress on my senior thesis. I had to stay up into the wee small hours of the morning to do it, and that after a shift at Friendly's, but I'm now a lot closer than I was.
In other news, I'm a bit gratified to see that searching for "Otakon 2003" on any of the major search engines puts my site in the top 10. Yay. And I still have one more post to make.
