Perhaps I shouldn’t have blogged about it – I may have jinxed it. Sadly, the miraculous parting of the firewall that has allowed me to use Skype and Google Talk for the last two or three weeks appears to have come to an untimely end. On my return to my office today, I found neither application able to connect to the outside world.

Evidently it was as I suspected: A fluke. An accident. It was a “hole” that has now been “patched.” Ugh!

I shouldn’t take it that badly, I suppose. I heard from my friend in another state that his district has blocked access to Flickr!