The pros and cons of tethering
<p>Until Tuesday (2011-11-01), I am sort of half-cut-off from the Internet.  I can browse, I can blog, and I can push commits to my project repos, but I can&#8217;t do IRC or mail.  This is a heads-up for my GPSD and other collaborators; I&#8217;m still here.</p>
<p>How this happened is a case study in 21st-century Internet vicissitudes&#8230;</p>
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<p>That freak early storm that dumped heavy snow up and down the East Coast took out the FIOS line to my house on Saturday night.  I was half-panicking at the thought of no Internet when I realized that I could solve p[art of the problem by tethering my desktop machine to my smartphone.</p>
<p>Thus, browsing and blogging and repo pushes.  However&#8230;because of spam coming off T-Mobile&#8217;s network, Freenode blocks connections from it; no IRC for me.  I also have no incoming mail because thyrsus.com is the downstairs server connected to my FIOS line.</p>
<p>Sigh&#8230;won&#8217;t be fixed until Tuesday.</p>
