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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Earthquake and updates

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A strong earthquake off Taiwan's southern coast damaged undersea cables, disrupting phone and Internet service Wednesday in much of Taiwan, China and Japan. The quake was felt throughout Taiwan. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated its magnitude at 7.1, while Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau measured it at 6.7. It was followed eight minutes later by 7.0 magnitude aftershock, the USGS said. A 5.9-magnitude aftershock struck early Wednesday, the Central Weather Bureau said.

The quake damaged two of the seven undersea cables near Taiwan used by several countries to route calls and Internet traffic, Chunghwa said. Crews fixing the cables would have to pull them up and transfer them to a ship for repair, the company said. 98% of Taiwan's communications capacity with Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong was disrupted. Many Internet users were unable to access Web sites. Internet access was cut or had become extremely slow.

I'm sure all of you, like me, have been trying to access the net the whole afternoon and etc with much problems. It took me almost two hours of staring into a blank screen just to manage this post. On a lighter note : Next gig before the NYE one...

35hz Trance @ Barbaablackchic
10pm - 3am, 29 December 2006
DJ line-up
* Dekoyan (Thirst Studio 2006 Runner-Up)
* Yukun
* Fred-E vs DjonG
* Daniel Storey

Currently also busy editing and working on an episode for Stellar Music. Go subscribe for a whole bunch of exclusive aural goodies, if you know what I mean. It's helmed by an old mate (he's not that old anyway) from the Groove Genetics days. Anyway, the set will be moving slightly away from the usual signature sound and will instead be a reflection of what I really like in dance music... something that would sit comfortably in the comfort of your living room as well as in the clubs with nothing going too heavily over-the-top (i.e. banging and euphoric). And nothing too removed from what you would've already heard from me.