Les Jones

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Blackouts in the northeast tonight. Guess where our honeymoon is? New York.

Actually, I'm not too concerned at this point. Power is coming back online. Our plane doesn't leave until Monday, and historically rolling blackouts like this only last a day or two. This isn't like Memphis, where some people are still without power from a tornado more than a month ago. In the Memphis case, lots of infrastructure was damaged.

If worse comes to worse, we'll cancel and go somewhere else. That $74 cancellation insurance sure seems like a bargain now.

I really like the attitude of this guy on Slashdot, discussing the blackout:

Actually with Mars being so close it will give people in big cities a very rare chance to see this site without all the light polution by which they are normally surrounded.

By golly, that's the spirit!

PS Haloscan (the folks who provide comments for my blog) are moving servers and changing IP addresses, so comments are down for some people. Once your ISP/DNS server gets the new IP address, everything should just start working again. I couldn't see comments this morning, but I can see them again now.