The Internet is Broken

The internet is broken. The earthquake I mentioned earlier ripped up some undersea cables outside Taiwan. I had assumed, wrongly, most international net traffic was now done through satellite. So accessing American web servers now is extremely difficult. All data is being rerouted to Europe and is getting clogged up, so pages hang endlessly. Blah. For some reason, Google still works flawlessly so I have this and my eMail working. I suspect they have an Asian mirror.

I've read it's going to that it's going to take at least two weeks to fix, so no calls home for about that long.

We felt that Taiwan quake all the way out here. They made us evacuate the Nanshan Education Bureau building in the middle of class. Thanks God there wasn't a tsunami going towards the Philipines as was feared. This is the third big quake on December 26th in four years... kinda strange, ey?