Sunday Few things are more dreadful than a slow, leaky Internet connection. I've been sitting here for over an hour, hoping that my connection to the server would speed up, but it looks like the problem tonight may be terminal.
All evidence points to a hardware problem with one of the phone company's routers in Philadelphia.
Not that that knowledge actually helps me any. My link is still slow. Intermittent Internet connectivity is just another reminder how vulnerable technology and communications can be. One major hardware failure in the wrong place could quickly throw our entire society all the way back to 1994. Technology has really managed to infiltrate our lives in the past five years.