Back online after over three weeks

Created 6/18/2009, updated 5/18/2017

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Finally back online as of only a few minutes ago and am starting the long, slow process of catching up:

synching email accounts (I've been using a web interface on a borrowed laptop, on a borrowed WiFi network up til now)
pulling down a few hundred meg of pent-up software updates from Apple
waiting for iTunes to sync its podcasts
pushing more than a hundred commits out to remote Git repositories
getting back on top of support tickets and the like

So it will take a while, but at least I've turned the corner!

One bit of good news, at least, is that I am literally only 200 meters from the exchange, so this is the first time my ADSL provider has been able to deliver the speeds they advertise (it's a 6 megabit connection, and I'm currently downloading at over 650 kilobytes per second).

Update (2 hours later): Nope. Back offline again. The short version: a dead router which lasted only an hour. See this post for the full details.

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