Here’s the bad news.<\/p>\n
A 7.1 Richter Scale earthquake hit southern Taiwan yesterday, injuring 42 people and killing 2.<\/p>\n
The Taiwan weather bureau says aftershocks of 5.0 magnitude are expected within a week.<\/p>\n
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Taiwan, especially since the earthquake might trigger a regional tsunami to the neighouring countries.<\/p>\n
Even though Singapore is a couple of thousand miles away, we were spared either.<\/p>\n
A number of submarine data cables were damaged, disrupting Internet access. [At this time, google, gmail, clickbank and my email accounts are inacessible].<\/p>\n
The fact that I have DSL and cable modem connections to 2 different Internet Service Providers hasn’t helped either. Taiwan is one of the major Internet gateways between Asia and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n
Although Internet connectivity has been rerouted to other connections, I believe the ISPs are metering the available bandwidth. Sites are loading up slowly and though HTTP access is available to some sites, email isn’t readily accessible.<\/p>\n
This means I can’t access email sent to me via the contact form.<\/p>\n
If you need to get me, you can insert a comment in the blog comments, including your email address.<\/p>\n
Here’s a Bloomberg report on the Taiwan earthquake:<\/p>\n