I've been tempting fate by bragging around that my Windows 2003 home media server is approaching one year of uptime. I should have kept my gob shut, because fate has a way of brutally getting her way.

This is what nine months of uptime looks like on a Windows Server 2003 system. With subtle edits.

Clarification: My server is fine. On Tuesday, our power company decided to do some work on the local power lines. Thankfully, they did let us know ahead of time that our power would be out on Tuesday. I have my server and other important systems on UPS power backup, but the outage was predicted to last five hours (again, to their credit, they finished in four) and my consumer-grade UPSs just can't hold my systems up that long.

That's why I was able to get the screenshot of uptime before I had to shut the server down.