I'm sitting at my desk, watching my Internet and email access lights intermittently light up and extinguish. Our server has been in a foul mood all morning, and is taking it out on our office. Time for daydreaming. How did we survive before without the Internet? Oh well: I really didn't want to communicate with anyone today anyway. Now I don't have a choice in the matter. At times like these, my misanthropic side holds sway. (There really should be a circle of hell reserved for IT people whom, I'm convinced, often design systems to periodically fail to ensure their own job security.) On the other hand, happily, with no digital distractions, I have more free time, and since we all know work expands to fill the available time, I'm inspired by my sporadically functioning surroundings to compose reflections like the following: Definition: Re-li-a-bil-i-ty (noun): The quality or state of being reliable. The extent to which an experiment, test or measuring procedure yields the same results on repeated trials.
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