How to Find Out What Woke Up Your Computer Last
by Whitson Gordon and David Murphy from Lifehacker on (#4SC26)

I occasionally let my desktop computer chug on a task throughout the night, and it can be jarring when it wakes up for no reason-blasting my room with light from my 34" monitor. Whether you're confronted by random wakeups, or you enter a room to find out that your computer is on when it shouldn't be, don't just shrug"