By Eyebee, on March 17th, 2008
Why does everything seem to go wrong on Mondays? I remember writing on this topic just last week.
Services that were once a luxury, such as telephone, and even electricity are now seen as necessities and for many the Internet falls into that category too. It certainly does for those of us that rely on the connectivity to earn a few pennies each day!
This morning, no Internet. That means no phone too, when you use VOIP. That’s not so bad, as mine is set up to forwardto my cellphone if there’s a net outage anyway. Although I can check my emails on my cellphone, it’s not a full web browser, and not the best way to try and reply.
Fortunately, I was off to visit a client this morning anyway, so I’ve been able to purloin a spare computer of theirs to do some other tasks that needed doing this morning.
Heck it was only yesterday, that I was commenting that ‘we’ve never had it so good” as far as the Internet goes. I guess, I put a jinx on things, and today’s citywide outage is all my fault!
By Eyebee, on February 13th, 2008
My Mother had the 78 of that 1950’s song by Guy Mitchell.
It always springs to mind when we have yet another power outage here. I think whenever a sparrow lands in the tree outside it kills the power, as SCEG’s distribution network is so unreliable.
I’ve never lived anywhere where the power goes out 2-3 times a month or more. Until I lived here I used to use power surge protectors, but never had to invest in a bunch of UPS’s for the computers, so my work isn’t lost.
This company charges enough for its power, and if you’re a tad late paying their outrageous bills, they’ll cut you off in a heartbeat, but there are no positive attributes I can find to describe them.
If they spend some of their income on modernizing the network – laying cables underground instead of on poles perhaps – instead of just maximizing profits, we’d get a more reliable supply.
A national grid would help of course too, but that’s not going to happen any time soon, and anyway, is a different issue from the lousy local supply.
Expensive, overpriced, lousy, unreliable – that about all that comes to mind, when I think of SCEG
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