1.   Angry residents there have taken to blocking the Trans-Siberian Railroad in protest of daylong electrical blackouts.

2.   EBay blamed the daylong blackout on a corrupted database caused by faulty software from Sun Microsystems.

3.   Katherine, a soft-spoken young wife, is having daylong blackouts.

4.   Traders seemed to take the technical problems in stride, saying they had experienced daylong blackouts on the Italian market before.