I'll Say She Is!
Friday, 15 August 2003
The blackout that saved Christmas

With the big blackout up in the Northeast yesterday, I can't wait [/sacasm] to see how busy we are at work today. See, the black boxes my company sells are involved with power plants and such; in fact, I think they are supposed to keep this sort of thing from happening at a certain level. I predict the following:

*Son of Mr. B will have all sorts of ideas on how we can capitalize on this, which will mean I'll be very busy
*All the engineers will be talking about this in agonizing detail
*At least one of said engineers will attempt to explain to me, in very technical terms, why the blackout happened

This could be good for business, if politicians decide that maybe they ought to upgrade the power system's equipment from the 1950s, maybe they will buy our black boxes. This could be the thing that saves us from the Enron debacle debacle.

Posted by ginevra (link)