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LA power outage: doofy screwup

LA power outage: doofy screwup

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
Molly Wood
The latest inductee in my "somebody got fired for that" hall of fame is the guy who in Los Angeles on Monday, plunging parts of the city into darkness and causing fender benders and assorted freak-outs. Here in the tech universe, we call that a "user error." A big one.