Olympic Sized Frak Up

[Hermiod]

Bah, that kind of thing is to be expected when a major project is undertaken. People should be able to live for a few hours without phone or internet service.

A few hours is one thing, but this happened on Saturday afternoon and it's still not back up.

OK, a few days then. C'mon, life existed without the net and it still can. Except for the addicts.

The person who informed me about this in the first place is a consultant who works from home when he isn't on a client site.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Seeing as most of England is using DSL (or cable, but most people I know have DSL), it's more a case of people raging that they can't use the internet than not being able to use their landline phones. Who DOESN'T have a mobile nowadays anyway?

You guys in the non-mobile brigade ought to read John Humphry's recent piece on why they actually turn out to be useful. It explains things farm more elegantly than I could (I'm sorry it's in the Mail, but he's an eloquent writer despite the mud upon which his words are now published...)

Yeah, I agree, and I'm sure I'll have one eventually. I'm sure someone is planning to give one to me for my birthday or Christmas.

 

[Australis]

Wel, I 'm still not sure about a mobile because there are still studies being done about brain cancer and so on. And I talked to a guy on a mobile for an hour one time (work related) and when I was finished , most of the side of my head was very warm, and the lump behind my ear seems bigger than the other side.

Aside from that, we had a massive power outage in Sydney (two in fact) in the last week, and today the Norther Territory of Australia was isolated from the rest of the continent - banks couldn't work, only landlines worked, and so on.

Thinks: is there some kind of global conspiracy?

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Yeah, I agree, and I'm sure I'll have one eventually. I'm sure someone is planning to give one to me for my birthday or Christmas.

Yeah, you keep thinking that.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

So, which Olympics-related SNAFU cost more money, this or the Lisa Simpson giving a BJ logo?

 

[Squiggy]

Heh. I have wireless broadband and a wireless phone, yet I don't have a digital television (only 4 channels here).

Techno-rube.

 

[John Picard]

Heh. I have wireless broadband and a wireless phone, yet I don't have a digital television (only 4 channels here).

Techno-rube.