Good morning, internets. I hope you’re not locked into (or out of) your house, that your lights are working, and that your school district hasn’t just cancelled classes due to Googlefail. Also that your fridge and heat work. I’ve been looking with a jaundiced eye at the Cloud Everything movement (I use a cloud service. I also keep multiple local backups of everything that matters). Also at networked home automation, the system that my friend and colleague Cory Doctorow calls The Internet Of Things That Should Not Be On The Internet.
It's snowing and Google is down!
I should of course mention that this is also a likely explanation: https://xkcd.com/2347/