Urgh...

My internet connection's been playing me up today - I even ended up calling my provider to check if there was a problem in my area...

Of course, while I was on the phone my connection came back - once the guy told me to turn off my firewall for a sec. When I hung up, I turned the firewall back on, and my connection winked off again. So I switched it off again, but that didn't sort it out.

I've since rebooted the PC, turned off the modem and router for the umpteenth time this evening (something I always do before I call the helpline, since my router does sometimes need to be switched off for a moment), but nothing seemed to help. Until I turned off the firewall again.

So I'm sitting here with, for now, a working connection, but no firewall. So I hope you'll excuse me if I just tab the pages I want to look at and vanish again...

Hopefully this'll have righted itself tomorrow...