E-Learning & Online Teaching

I live in northern San Diego County. I’ve just spent a day without Google thanks to some mystery glitch at Cox Communications. I could get to the net, but all Google services wouldn’t resolve. This kicked my habits in the head and disrupted my workflow more than I thought it should. Over the last year I’ve gradually abandoned Eudora and gone completely on line with G-Mail. Yesterday I paid the price for working on the edge.

Loosing access to my G-Mail account was like going temporarily blind.

But now I can see, and now I understand the danger of putting too many eggs in any provider’s basket.

I have dozens of email accounts associated with my online work. Each is set to forward to my G-mail account which (in theory) is always just and quick connection away.

But when the network is down, your email is hard to reach.

I’m going to get back to my old habit of subscribing and registering with my regular email addresses (which all forward to g-mail). This will leave a backdoor to my mail should ‘Google Go Down’ big time.

Reminder to self: Murphy will always love computers. (Gupperson’s corollary to Murphy’s Law: A knowledge of Murphy’s Law cannot be used to your own advantage.)

~Dennis (re-googlized)