An Excuse

-----Original Message-----
From: IT Manager
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:57 PM

To: staffrva@
Subject: Equinox outage broadcast

FYI,

The Equinox is here again which means the sun will be causing temporary Internet signal weakness and/or outages. You can read the details below. The layman explanation is the bright sun blinds the satellite dish in Nairobi so that it can't see the satellite in the sky very well.

If you're really into this kind of stuff, the attachment is the predictions of the times when they sun will affect the signal each day during the equinox.

The other side of this phenomenon is that our connection in Kijabe is so poor most of the time that you won't even notice the outages anyway, so you can delete this message and pretend I never said anything about it.

-JH

Computer Services Manager

Rift Valley Academy

** It's nice to have something to BLAME the bad internet on . . . and it gives me something to look forward to in AMERICA! I vow now to never again take the internet for granted.