I authored an entry this morning detailing how my PCs - which for conservation reasons I regularly turn-off/hibernate except when in use - mysteriously fail to restart whenever I really critically need them immediately. e.g. When I have to grab a piece of info before I head out the door, or I'm on the phone and need an address. In such situations, with an unbelievably high degree of correlation,  the hibernation restart will fail, or the BIOS will throw up some random error, or Windows 2003 will stall on the beginning progress bar - Something will happen that screws up the startup. I'm forced to power down on the back of the power supply (otherwise the next startup will bizarrely claim that no keyboard is attached), and then wait for the time-sucking from-scratch startup. Perhaps in such a rushed situation I hit the power button more vigorously, or in my haste I shuffle my feet on the carpet and deliver a static shock to my PC: There has to be some rational explanation for this, as my systems are flawless the other 96% of the time (when it doesn't really matter how quickly I can get at them).

It has since become apparent this information - revealing the malice and schadenfreude of our PCs - had to be suppressed. Upon trying to post this I discovered that yafla.com was down due to a RAID failure (what they really need is a RARAID). When it finally came up, after 4 hours of downtime, and the big chance came for the post to be published, Radio Userland promptly spit up a GPF and unceremoniously deleted that entry.

Coincidence? I think not...