So there was this 7.1 on the Richter scale earthquake somewhere in southern Taiwan and we felt a couple of tremors here in Hong Kong and it was nothing special but thanks to this earthquake a lot of undersea internet cables were damaged and a lot of eastern Asia has been affected. I can’t even access Google or Yahoo from Hong Kong. The reason my Korean trip pictures aren’t up yet is because I can’t access Flickr either. It sucks and I hope they can fix these problems soon because I can’t imagine what this is like for big businesses.
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That’s pretty intense. Could you imagine a world without the internet? Even for just a few days, it would have to be a scary experience. At least some sites are working for you.
It’s better now. Most sites work but they take MINUTES (!) to load. Google works but even though it only takes a few seconds for it to process a search it’s still nowhere near ideal. Your site still doesn’t work though as do a few others. I read somewhere that it might take three weeks to get the connections back to normal.
MSN Messenger doesn’t work here either.
I found out that big companies have alternative connections that they all switched to. The company my dad works at has normal internet because they switched over to some Sprint line.
Everything works fine now.
Flickr and Msn Messenger work too!
Yeah, most sites work but loading them still takes a long time and you still can’t download files at a good rate. I still can’t sign in to Flickr using my non-Yahoo account, the page never loads. I guess I have to find Flickr Uploadr somwhere else.