I don’t know if it is because I am in Indonesia, but things seem to take so much longer to get fixed. For instance, my website and my blog went broken a couple of weeks ago… I would say that it should be fixed in no time. But hey, you know Murphy, and especially his law. Everything that could go wrong - did go wrong.

It started when I could not access the internet from my home. Somehow Indonesian internet service providers mix-up the terms “instable” and “not working”. We already got a letter from our ISP saying that in “the next week” (this was 3 weeks ago) the internet would be instable. For compensating the inconvenience, we got two vouchers, each with the validity of one month free internet. The vouchers are valid until 31-Dec-2008. YES, you read it right 2008. Not long after that, internet failed completely. I was unable to connect from my home at all. And at that exact time (timing couldn’t have been better), the website broke down.

How to fix it… I spent some time trying to fix things via my office, but this is only possible after hours. Internet at the office however, is very instable (instable, not out). In despair I went to the office on Saturdays. I even tried to use the internet at the Cazbar, but guess what.. the internet there was down also. In the end, I was not able to fix things… even after installing joomla and wordpress again. In the mean time, the internet at home was dead as a dead internet can be.

Finally I gave up and asked my webhost to change my account from Windows to UNIX. This took many many days to accomplish, but at last, my UNIX account was ready. Today, I re-installed everything on the UNIX host (at my office) and see what happens: the website is up again, the blog is running again, and yes… internet at home is back as if it never left (yes.. jam karet they call it here - elastic time: 1 week is actually 3 weeks).

I am happy now.