Sorry folks - no email this week

so we got confirmation from a few more people about the earthquake in taiwan a few days ago (while i was landed there, actually - scary!) that destroyed several of the major internet lines under the ocean. hotmail was one of the big carriers that was affected so it is down in most of south east asia... doesn't work anywhere here! it's annoying, but probably a blessing since i am on vacation and shouldnt be checking email too much anyways.

for all of you out there who have sent me emails (or are expecting one from me), my apologies. I wanted to write or call some people to wish them a Happy New Years, too, but everything is locked away in my Hotmail address book or in my cell back in Japan :P

Asia slowly recovering from outage:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/quake.telecoms.ap/index.html
Asia back online after quakes:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/internet.asia.reut/index.html