Jul 17, 2007
Unplugged
One of the problems with living in a rural place is that you no longer have economies of scale when it comes to service outages and such. We lost the internet all day yesterday and today. Oh and the phone. You couldn't get to the outside world from Robertson. But since only two thousand people were affected, it wasn't the same as if you lost say the internet link and phone service to Sunnyvale, California. Seems there was only one guy in the entire country who was able to fix the problem and I guess he must've been out in Perth and Robertson isn't quite as important - as say Perth. At least they got everything finally working tonight. They were originally claiming that it would take another day or two.
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decaying mass of outworn thought which attaches the modern world to
medieval conceptions of Christianity, and which still lingers among us --
a most serious barrier to religion and morals, and a menace to the whole
normal evolution of society.
- Andrew D. White, author, first president of Cornell University, 1896
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At my Thai home, we would have running water maybe half the days each week, and lose the power maybe twice a month. It does allow one to appreciate the huge sums of money that have already been spent on infrastructure......
but I learned to take it all in stride, or with equanimity as a Buddhist would say. A big part of my attraction to the Thai lifestyle was it's laid-back nature, and 'going with the flow' just seemed like part of that. No power? Candles and visiting neighbors outdoors becomes the work-around....
Well yeah - but the Australian government is in the middle of a huge and controversial initiative to provide 24/7 wireless internet to the entire country before the next election. So to have the 'old' internet (not to mention telephone) go out for days at a time is a slap in the face to the administration and an embarrassment in the public polls in the critical months leading up to the election. Sure only 2000 people were affected, but we're talking about 2000 voters.
I'd hate to be the guy wearing that beeper. Dude, you've got twenty minutes to fix that router. By order of the prime minister...