A GROUP of chemists at the University of West Florida recently found
themselves in a rerun of a famous urban myth.
Readers may remember the one about the hospital cleaner who supposedly
unplugged a patient’s life-support system so that she could use the power socket
to plug in her vacuum cleaner. The chemists in Florida remembered it too, after
their Internet server suddenly went down one evening, while some of them were
accessing it from home.
Yes, a member of the cleaning staff at the university had decided that the
socket strip connecting the server to its power supply was…
