football and the internet
How, you ask, could these two items be inter-related? Because yesterday
both sucked!
The Philadelphia Eagles managed to lose a game that had the opposing
team score only a single touchdown. The receivers for the Eagles
managed to *not* catch most of the passes *and* also directly caused 2
of the interceptions — horrible!
Ok, enough of sports for the year — well at least until the other
football starts getting interesting :)
It seems that all of the negative energy of the Eagles sucking must have
passed thru the cable infrastructure and burned out some important piece
of equipment. I have to think that because otherwise I have to come to
the conclusion that the techs of Comcast (my lovely ISP – truely they
are normally good) do not subscribe to the redundant hardware philosphy.
Anywho, the point I was badly making, is that somehow Comcast lost one
of their core servers and that caused Internet access to drop in 3 of
the largest counties in my area. It was down for close to 6 or so hours
and when it did come back up the dhcp server in my area decided to
require a kick in the pants. After all that their accounting database
decided that I really didn’t have the modem I’ve been using and switched
to a modem definition that I had swapped out 4 months ago.
Joy!
At least the techs on the phone were polite and informative – even if to
tell me it was something only the weekday folks can fix.
Stay tuned.
