Be warned that “severe weather” in Middle Alabamaland, or a little bit of wind and rain, could knock out power and/or Net service today. Makes one wonder what Alabama Power, Charter and AT and T would do in the case of a real disaster, natural or otherwise. They want Congress to grant them immunity for spying on us. I want my money back for all the time they (we) are down…

Major storm for the eastern half of the U.S.

Meanwhile on the techno front, two cables that carry Internet traffic deep under the Mediterranean Sea snapped Thursday, disrupting service across a swath of Asia and the Middle East. India took one of the biggest hits, and the damage from its slowdowns and outages rippled to some U.S. and European companies that rely on its lucrative outsourcing industry to handle customer service calls and other operations, according to the AP and other news organizations and bloggers.

Cable Break Causes Wide Internet Outage

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