Monday, August 25, 2008

How do you spell "Single Point of Failure?"

S-Q-U-I-R-R-E-L.

Seems that an al-Qaeda trained suicide squirrel took out Switzerland's power grid.

No, I'm not making this up.
Swiss TV's emergency power back-up was too puny too cope with demand - and many Swiss sports fans were left very frustrated. The outage at Switzerland's national broadcaster coincided with the closing ceremony of the Olympics and also the Formula 1 race in Valencia.
This is why you don't just write up your Disaster Recovery Plan, kids, you practice it. Maybe PETA wouldn't let them?

UPDATE 26 August 2008 12:26: Rachel Lucas has a typically hilarious rant about squirrels, that's worth a read. But the comments are simply outstanding. My favorite was Og:
Squirrels are rats with tails. Evil rats with tails. Very, very tasty evil rats wiht tails.

5 comments:

  1. EDGEAugust 25, 2008 at 8:34 PM

    My dad has declared war on the squirrel nation.

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  2. BorepatchAugust 25, 2008 at 8:49 PM

    LOL

    But it looks like he bubba'd his M14 ...

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  3. Chris McClure aka Panhandle PoetAugust 25, 2008 at 8:50 PM

    I'll catch the squirrels if you'll train 'em!

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  4. BorepatchAugust 25, 2008 at 9:31 PM

    Not sure how I found this, but it looks like the special of the day is squirrel melt ...

    http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/08/this-camping-tr.html

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  5. AnonymousAugust 26, 2008 at 12:36 PM

    Mmmm. Tasty squirls.

    -og

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