Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

Yeah, still alive. Still writing. Might blog more here in depth later, because Storify is acting up on IE11 and I need to get down something about unhinged authors before it falls out my brain.

I tried to email a bunch of you lovely lot, but I got a 'delivery failed permanently' for addresses I thought would work. Cambridge folk will see where this is heading. If any of you have a GMail, Hotmail/Outlook, work address that doesn't mind personal mail...hell, even a sodding Yahoo, could you let me know what it is? (Comments screened, if you want to put it here.)

I'd apologise for the dreadful inconvenience, but think of your anger at using a popular free email address in the same way I look on the only method of contact for some people I care about being stamped on by someone with the social airs and graces of a plate of mashed potato.

Ta muchly!

Office internets is down! It appears the DNS is not working, so I dutifully trekked to the server room to prod the server that deals with this, but no joy. The secondary DNS pings fine, the primary address times out, and nslookup keels over. Having checked event logs, restarted things and poked some more- and the Danish sysadmin not knowing what it could be- I called Redstone, who promised me they'd call me back in my server room lair. They have not called back. Before I go and shout at them, is anyone else on Redstone at their work and having issues? And have I missed trying something else to fix the lack of DNS?

This post brought to you by camomile tea, hastily scoffed tinned curry and being the one shouting in the server room so you can play ping pong all afternoon so you don't have to D:

ETA- Looks like it is Redstone's end; the only DNS responding is the office internal one. They think it's fixed though, boggle. Also, minus points to a) trying to flog me infrastructure training on the same call and b) asking to speak to the sysadmin WHEN I AM SHE (for now at least :p) D:

Our net problems continue apace, at the rate of one a day; ranging from high ping through to the cutting out from incoming calls and just plain outages where the router isn't giving us any helpful orange lights of death. Having provided all the technical info an IT-infused chick can, BT on Twitter suggested yet another speedtest, then decided out of the blue it was the Hub that was faulty, and had the gall to say my current one was out of warranty and a new one would be £50.

( More boggle-ness, minimal tech knowledge needed to get the fail :P )

So, yeah, that was my evening in a nutshell. 'Moff to look at decent routers methinks...