The VPN at work is down. I rarely connect from home, since I can get my email in mobile fashion (thank you, RIM), but the people I work with need to get to the servers to make changes, and tonight, that connection just crapped out. Pointed reminder that despite thinking the network is Shirky’s permanet, at least here in the heart of San Francisco, working for an internet company… Internet Protocol (IP) isn’t a full utility yet.