Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Howard, I can completely understand your feelings. I am equally addicted to this great community. Actually, "addicted" is a wrong word, since it has negative connotations. And in my case at least, my now 8+ years association with the LUG has brought me nothing but a great deal of joy, new friendships, and intellectual and artistic inspiration. I do not say it lightly, I really mean it. This is why I have taken my laptop on this trip, and even though my sister here in Poland does not have internet at home, I just go to the local McDonalds a couple of times a day and use their wifi connection; and the main reason is to read the LUG, and update my travel diary. So once again, thanks to Brian for making this possible, and thanks to all of you for great company. Nathan On 30-dec-2006, at 2:39, Howard Cummer wrote: > Hello Luggers, > I didn't realize how addicted I am to the LUG and the photographs > posted on it until I couldn't access most of the photos any more! :-( > The Boxing Day 7.2 magnitude earthquake off Taiwan disrupted 6 of > the 7 undersea cables carrying internet between Asia and North > America. Service is still not restored completely because rough > seas are preventing the repair ships from raising and fixing the > cables. The result is that, although the LUG has come back on > (slowly), I can't access pictures posted on the LUG if they are put > up on servers located in NA because service is so slow that my > server times them out before they load. > So, I can read comments about pictures but can't see them for > myself. The situation is predicted to go on for several more days > if not a week or more. Just wanted to share > how frustrating this is and how vulnerable the internet really > is . . . Food for thought. > Howard > (isolated and picture-less in Hong Kong) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman nathan@nathanfoto.com General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog