Dear All,

Due to a fault in SEA-ME-WE 3 submarine cable, Internet Service operations across the country have been shifted to the Satellite backup Link by PTCL. You may experience slow internet performance while accessing some web sites. Engineers are working on the problem and hope to fix it soon.
We will let you know as soon as the Internet Services are returned to normal.
Regards

ITSC HelpDesk
LUMS

Sent:
Tue 6/28/2005 9:19 AM

Today's Saturday, and it hasn't been fixed yet. It's quite irritating because this is the first time in 3 years that I've considered checking my email a "pain". Saad and Asad have also posted about it, although most of Asad's post was too confusing for me to get. :D

Also, it's been raining a lot recently, due to which all sorts of bugs have started making appearances on campus. Some are quite scary, but most have alreday ben squished by passing cars.

Also, i got a new kitten. Actually, it's been a week but the stupid internet cable fault made it impossible for me to post earlier. anyhoo, it's a really cute male cat, about 4 weeks old. haven't named him yet. plan on taking him home to islamabad and keeping him there. pictures soon.