I have no idea why, but our corporate Internet access is majorly sucky. The latency (I suspect) is so bad, that pages time-out left and right.<\/p>\n
I was on the Gartner site today, trying to build my agenda for next week’s symposium. I was successful in about one click out of three.<\/p>\n
I dialed out on my modem. Every click is now successful.<\/p>\n
I would complain about this, except that I’m not supposed to have outbound modem service any more, due to the security issues.<\/p>\n
For big downloads, using my company’s setup is keen. For casual browsing, it’s NFG, even for work-related stuff.<\/p>\n
I wonder if I can expense back my ISP …?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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