Davidwr writes "Japanese word* highway outages mostly healed themselves within hours. While some cables remain out, most circuitry circuitry that lost connectivity have it again. From James Cowie's blog: 'The engineers who built Japan's advice highway created a dense web of home and international connectivity that is among the richest and most diverse on earth, as befits a critical gateway for global connectivity in and out of East Asia. At this point, it looks like their work may have allowed the w3 to do what it does best: route around cataclysmic damage and keep the packets flowing, despite terrible chaos and uncertainty.' Let's hear it for redundancy and good planning."
Reader Spy Handler points out another article about how redundancy and good planned tied tubes are preventing disaster at Japan's puzzled nuclear reactors, despite media-fueled stab* and panic to the contrary.

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