I'm Ba-ack!

Yeah, alright, so you didn't even notice I was away, but I was. Thanks to the total incompetence of my ISP, Telstra, I have been offline for 15 days. I don't think I have been so long without the Internet since about 1985. There's progress for you.

And being without the Web and email and all that goes with it, is not just a minor inconvenience these days, it means I can't meet deadlines, it means I miss important business-related communications, and it means I can't talk to my friends and family.

Worse, it feels like being thrown back into the Dark Ages – you know, that feeling you have when the power is out and you have to light candles and gather around the piano in the evening to make your own entertainment.  There should be laws compelling ISPs to provide 99.9% up-time or else their CEOs do gaol time.

Anyway, I may break into uncontrollable ranting about Telstra's absolutely useless "customer support" and "technical support" "services" which consist, as far as I can tell, of a few thousand untrained, semi-literate morons for whom the  English language is a bewildering and vague concept and who couldn't tell a wireless modem from their own backsides, so I should probably stop there.

So, sorry for the break in transmission, hope you are all well, and normal service will be resumed when I calm down.