Occasional Observations

A few hours completely offline, thanks to a failed power supply on a firewall, has underlined just how dependent I've become on always-on web access to do my job. No email? No chance of doing my work. No web? A hundred niggly things are suddenly not possible - grabbing a logo for a presentation, a bit of research into the competitive landscape, checking someone's job title, looking for online clips from a press release we distributed yesterday.

A significant realisation was that the fax is not an effective fallback. Of the 450 or so people in my business contacts book I have fax numbers for fewer than 10.

# posted by Nesjo : 17:37