Because when everything is flowing well, communicating with my office via dial-up is barely tolerable.<\/p>\n
When it isn’t flowing well, I can easily fritter away an entire morning trying to get a single sync to work, trying to get a single e-mail out.<\/p>\n
Sort of like today.<\/p>\n
Of course, I’ve also been watching our cable fritz in and out all morning, so I suspect that broadband may have its own pitfalls. <\/p>\n
Rrg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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