[Stones] Apologies for down time

[Ric]

no worries Chris - i thought i'd been banned [bout
time?] from 'Stones' so couldn't read or send
anything?

;)

Ric

--- Chris Tweed <chris at henge.org.uk> wrote:

> I just wanted to pass on my apologies for what seems
> to have been a  
> chunk of down time on the mailing list (lists!) over
> the last few days.
> 
> I flew out to Rome in the early hours of Sunday
> morning, my first  
> ever visit to Rome and actually my first ever visit
> to anywhere  
> outside of the UK that isn't the USA. This was my
> sister's birthday  
> treat for me, I'll be hitting a significant landmark
> in a little less  
> than a month from now *cough* XL *cough*. So, my
> sister and I flew  
> out to Rome and less than 24 hours later I get a
> text from Linda  
> telling me that she can't browse the web or send
> email. I 'talked'  
> her through everything I could think of but she said
> that nothing  
> seemed to be working.
> 
> I think the bit that she missed was powering the
> router off and on -  
> I think she only did the WiFi gateway.
> 
> So, within an hour of getting home this afternoon I
> went over  
> everything, including resetting the router, and
> things do seem to be  
> up and running again.
> 
> Sods law that something like that should happen. I
> couldn't even get  
> a net connection while I was in Rome to try and
> connect to the router  
> remotely. Although I think that would have failed
> then it might have  
> prompted me to double check with Linda that the
> router had been reset  
> for sure. I guess I could well have found a net
> cafe, but I was only  
> there for 2.5 days and to be honest I wanted to
> spend my time out and  
> about looking at things rather than sat hunched over
> a keyboard.
> 
> So, my apologies for the outage and rest assured
> that I am not due to  
> leave the country again for a few months.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Chris

Ric