Haven’t been able to get anything done, including blogging, for the past 24 hours, because KDDI crapped out on me. If I hadn’t complained loudly, they would’ve kept me hanging another one or two days, but I did insist and so they sent someone over a day after the outage started. And it’s not just the Internet, it’s also my landline telephone line. Apparently their “portability” between the lines is not even close to being as seamless and easy as they made it out to be when they were selling it.

Since mid-afternoon, I’ve had 5- or 10-minute islands of Internet workability, this being the latest–and if the KDDI guy, who spent an hour traipsing around my apartment opening up every phone jack panel and cutting a few internal lines, knows more than he’s letting on, then maybe it’ll actually stay on–but I’m not holding my breath. As it is, I’ve lost a lot of work time–and my phone line is still dead, and may be for another three or four days.

So far, I’m not incredibly impressed with the stability of the service, even though the speed is killer when it does work….