Well, I felt empty for a good portion of the day. Our internet connection at work went down late this morning, and it didn’t come back until after school ended today! Worst of all, when I tried to send e-mails to notify our staff that we were aware of an internet problem and we are working to resolve it, our e-mail system decided to pooh pooh my message and never sent it. So, we continued to field calls and walk-ups about the internet problems 
This was on top of the fact that Dreamhost had some network issues of its own. They think it was related to a switch error, but they are still investigating. In the meantime, they’ve got most of their servers up and running again.
Back to work and my lack of internet: I could not do much work because my current tasks rely heavily on my having internet access (i.e. Windows Updates, software updates, research, etc.). Luckily, just before our internet connection went down, I had found Bush in freefall. This is an entertaining mod to an already great ragdoll Flash movie by Pekka Sandborg. Seriously, I have been running the animation in a Flash player for more than 4 hours (not to mention the hour or so I was running it in a Firefox window using a Flash plugin) and I’m still not bored! Amazing!
So, the moral of the story is to always find something interesting while you’re working on the internet because you never know when it will go down and leave you with only the pages you have open! Have you found any fun things to do on the internet lately?
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