the outside world

It was Tuesday morning. My mobile phone couldn't connect to the network. I couldn't make or receive calls. Or text messages. I got to work to find the emails were down. The internet also wasn't working. I felt so isolated from the outside world. For all I knew, alien zombies (yes, that's right, dead aliens that have come back to eat your brains) had spawned from 3G iPhones all over the nation to take over the world. I was freaking out. It made me realise how much I rely on technology - I felt cut off from the rest of the world, unable to call or SMS anyone, or email anyone or check my emails through my computer or mobile phone. For all I knew they were getting their brains eaten by iPhones.

Turns out some backhoe driver cut Optus' main fibre optic cable just before 8am, knocking out landlines, mobiles and internet across Queensland and some of New South Wales (read the full story here). Kinda scary that one fibre optic cable was so critical... A lot of people were complaining about the chaos and frustration caused by the outage, with businesses counting the costs of it. I must admit it was a different story for me - I probably had what was my most productive morning in a while.

Ah well, things were back to normal for me by about 1pm, but I'm still skeptical about those iPhones...