Why you should have a UPS

I was cooking ramen, and tripped the breaker on the whole room – including my desktop that was logged into work stuff.  As you can see, the UPS Carried the system all the way through the outage until I could get downstairs to reset the breaker (twice).  So instead of having to deal with corrupted data from my heavy disk caching and waiting for the system to reboot all I had to do was reset the breaker and allow my software to reconnect to the server.  (network is back-hauled to DSL via HomePlug AV, which can’t be UPSed)