Well, sort of. Each weekday, I spend my mornings writing news articles for Applelinks, converting them to HTML, and posting them to the Applelinks Web site. Although I live in a pretty isolated rural area, I actually have little to complain about as regards power interruptions. The service here is quite dependable. However, a power failure at the wrong time can throw a crimp into my work day.
News is something that has time value.
Anyway, last Thursday morning, just as I was about to wake up my PowerBook and get to work, the power went off. It died exactly on the hour, and a call to the power utility's hotline confirmed that a substation about two miles from me had been shut down for scheduled maintenance, and the estimated time of the outage would be two hours. No problem, that should be well within the time envelope provided by the WallStreet's battery. I got to work, occasionally glancing at the battery research indicator. I've owned it.