If you listen to Major Nelson's Podcast, he brags about how the big wind storm last week/a couple of weeks ago in Washington state didn't impact Xbox Live at all... He gave a description of all of the poor little Microsoft employees who had to man the freezing, noisy Xbox Live server room for up to 8 hours at a time. I wish someone would do a podcast about me having to do my ing job rain or shine.
But the servers in Redmond seem to have trouble when nothing is happening in Washington.