With almost every gadget available and techie stuff here and there to make our lives more comfortable and convenient, who wouldn’t be frustrated when one of your computer hard drives gets infected with a virus or your mp3 player won’t make a sound? As most of us become more dependent on technology for our daily tasks, we also need to remind ourselves that even the most reliable systems are not that immune to downtime or failures.

I just read a Cnet news Webware article by Stephen Shankland which briefly reports that Yahoo! Mail, which reportedly has millions of users around the globe, recently had an outage which even at such a small percentage already affected lots of users. I did remember logging in to my Yahoo! Mail one time and getting an error page. Even big companies such as Comcast and Google’s Gmail also had downtimes recently.