Taiwan quake disrupts Internet:

HONG KONG: The strong Taiwan earthquake, measuring a magnitude of 7.1, damaged several undersea data cables in the region on Wednesday, jamming up the Internet, a Hong Kong phone operator said.

Internet was slow this morning, then the tubes get clogged up by lunchtime, causing the internet to come to a grinding halt. Singapore sites are reachable, and the sites that most of us go to (not in Singapore), are ‘dead’. I told my colleague that it could be due to natural causes, seeing how it’s been raining cats and dogs these few days. He called up the ISP and that’s where we got the news.

I don’t really rely on the internet to do work, but when the internet is down, so does the morale :). Anyway, things are fine now. I guess we are now on a slower backbone, but as long as it works, I’m happy.