Returning to the Blogosphere

I’ve a new year’s resolution: blog more.

Not sure if a new year’s resolution can be adopted prior to the new year. Here it goes.

Is broadband more important than any other utility, say, like water? Has broadband become a utility? The personal computer was suffering an unexplainable slowness a few minutes ago. Being wireless, my initial reaction is to reset the network connection through ejecting and reinserting the adapter. But then I remembered: a notice from Comcast saying their services would be disrupted between 1am and 4pm today.

It was irritating. Slow, dramatic pauses in the processing; repaints and refreshes took forever; email wasn’t responding; I couldn’t browse, even in multiple instances of the browser. It was worse than a Captain Kirk monologue. It felt like I was on dialup. – Shudder – It was frustrating.

Just earlier my home’s water heater ran dry as guests and family consumed the available supply before I could take my shower. It was a luke-warm, disappointing shower. One you wish you could do over. You know what I mean? Sure you do. Yet the shower didn’t get me frustrated. Not like the bandwidth thing.

Why has network connectivity has become so important; its utility more important than hot water? Does the neighborhood notice and there’s a sense of communal loss, like the loss of power, when the bandwidth goes out? Like when everybody steps outside of their homes, looking around to see if power’s out down the street? Wait, I think a see a neighbor now, looking out of his home office window, a befuddled look on his face. He and I, we’re thinking the same thing: “Is… Is every one out there like me? Or am I the only one?”

Alas, I think there’s a message here. The lack of bandwidth will prevent me from posting this blog entry this morning. Maybe this is the Internet’s way of suggesting something – that I should take up painting or crochet as a hobby; forget writing. Forget blogging. Well, so much for resolutions. I’ll try this again and see how fate treats me.

Russell Mickler, CISSP MCSE (rmickler@micklerandassociates.com)

Principal, Mickler & Associates

www.micklerandassociates.com

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