It's amazing how one fire http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/01/the_planet_houston_data_center_fire/ halfway across the globe from where I am can really disrupt my cyber life.

Sunday morning I woke up to find my e-mail was not working. This is because my e-mail is hosted off this website, which is hosted free by the lovely people at Jamroll web hosting. This meant my plan for doing some wiki on this website on the Sunday couldn't happen. The fact I had no e-mail was worst though. As a result I have lots of catching up to do. Also since it was down for nearly 48hours many e-mails haven't got through to me. I've noticed Facebook notifications in particular haven't arrived on my doorstep. As a result I might have missed an important e-mail I was expecting with regards to a parcel I've been waiting for for almost 3 weeks to be delivered by Amtrak which has instead sat at their Birmingham depot. Annoying customer service that.

Lesson I've learnt is always make sure I have some sort of backup.