On Friday, I phoned AT&T to ask if I should expect some disruption in my cable modem service, given that Excite@Home had recently filed for bankruptcy and I had heard rumors that this might affect AT&T customers. When I finally got through to someone (and after the online help page to which I was initially referred refused to load), I was told no, of course not, don’t be silly. Excite’s just the homepage; AT&T provides the actual service. So I said thank you, sighed relief, and hung up. And Saturday morning (I think you can see where I’m going with this), I was suddenly without a cable modem connection. Complete disruption of service. Now AT&T was saying that of course there would be some trouble. Hadn’t we heard? Excite@Home had recently filed for bankruptcy. So it looks like I could be without an internet connection at home until maybe Thursday or later, while AT&T transitions its customers to the new network. I’m okay with that, and I’ve been assured that I’ll be credited two full days for each one that I am without service, but it’s a little annoying that I was given such patently false information when I first called. Ah well, life goes on.