Wow, five now. There comes a time when reasonable skepticism has to concede to sheer numbers.

I know Bowser keeps focusing on the disruption to the Middle East, but FLAG is an Indian company, and early reports talked about the havoc being wreaked on the Indian outsourcing industry. The Net's their lifeline to America and Europe, and it's the only thing that makes it possible for them to siphon American jobs to India. Now that I have a license to speculate, I'm betting economic warfare.

Oh! Crap, now I understand something that happened last night: I was trying to use one of those Web site text-chat technical support systems, and kept getting a message saying that response time was slow due to a network outage. Duh! They're in India!