Seriously. It’s a day when everybody’s broadband was screwed by the earthquake in Taiwan. We thought that there was some problem with our router, so we restarted it. Several times. At least 5 clients had called to complain about a service outage, and that their webmail was not working. The same thing happened to us. Our tech support guy had been busy the moment he stepped into office. After some troubleshooting, we figured that it might not have been our problem after all. So we called Tmnet.

They said that there was a tsunami and that some international links were damaged off Taiwan. We went like “Oh..”. I did hear about an earthquake but I didn’t think it disrupted internet connections. Strangely enough, some news sources only mentioned ‘earthquake’, but no tsunami. Some other sources said that a 3-foot high tsunami had hit the Philippines. Whatever the case, we internet users suffer. US-based sites were hardly accessible. Google, though, seemed almost unaffected.

Google NewsStill, most of Google’s search results were inaccessible. As for Google News, exerpts from each result have been very helpful. I got most of my updates from there. Anyway I dread to think how long more this ordeal is going to last. Crawling on the net is so frustrating.