"Robatoy" wrote
Some clown cut through a fibre-optic cable, one of those "Dig Before You Call" incidents. My shop was was fine, uninterrupted services. My house? No phone. No Intertubes No TV No 911 My Crackberry went looking for my WiFi and took the expensive data- route for my e-mails as it like to go roaming across the river to a US supplier. (I usually get refunded for those)
All in all, it made me aware just how much I am depending on that farking little coax coming into my house, and subsequently my office as well.
I'm not suggesting we're going back to smoke signals and pigeons, but holy cow.. that was a wake-up call. Too vulnerable for my tastes... not to mention my daughter couldn't get at her home-work, or do her after-school job as a barista at a local coffee shop. ===============================
What, your daughter couldn't make coffee drinks without a computer? Here in the states, baristas actually memorize how to make the drinks.
Seriously though, being so dependent on so many large, complicated systems can really screw you up if the service becomes interupted in any way. And anything from an errant cutin a line to an earthquake can create the outage.
I have been involved in planning for such interuptions for some offices. There really isn't much you can do. And any redundencies gets quite expensive.