yeaps, the "flaps of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can indeed cause a tornado in China", metaphorically speaking. Remember I was saying how i went back to office after collecting my spectacles on the previous Saturday? I'm in the operations department, and sometimes emergencies and unforeseen circumstances cropped up.
In this case, our work is affected because an undersea cable in Marseilles and/or Alexandre was cut by the anchors of passing ships. So what has a marine accident halfway across the globe got to do with sunny island Singapore?
Big time, if you're expecting information from India. The cable(s) that was cut affects internet connectivity between the Indian subcontinent and the rest of Asia. So we were expecting some files from India last week, but because of the outage, they arrived corrupted. As they were time-sensitive information, I had to go back to office and download from the primary site, do up the information before sending it to my counterparts in Guam. Thank God that the whole process was smooth.
I remembered, even as I'm blogging this entry, that something along this nature also affected us last year, when an undersea earthquake disrupted some cables that were laid off the island of Taiwan. Argh, the boons and banes of being interdependent in a globalised world!
Related news link:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/
http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com/2008/02/detailed-images-find-undersea-cable.html
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