My friend Anne was "astounded the servers would go down the night of the 2nd biggest dead­line of the year". I put together a brief restate­ment of a basic com­put­ing law: As pos­si­ble incon­vience increases, prob­a­bil­ity of com­puter screwups approaches 1. It's a gen­eral form of the spe­cial law that states "print­ers never work when it makes a difference".