Occasional Tales

Columns. The Ass classes are meant to be writing a column on gαy marriage. I had Ass β in the computer room  for a double (split by lunch) yesterday. Wise but lazy students posted nothing. Less wise but just as lazy students posted something. One moron wrote one word every two minutes and another wrote one word every four minutes. A third clown posted the entry which he should’ve posted on the first occasion I got them to do some blog writing. There were also two girls who decided that SATs were more important than the class after lunch. No, you cretins, SATs are of secondary importance to all else. Go join an AP programme or go to the States and attend high school there where they matter; otherwise stop wasting class time with something that’s neither relevant nor important. What annoyed me about these two was the excuse that they didn’t know what to write. They have several articles from the Guardian and a list of features which characterise a column. They have pl...

It's a mood thing. I happened to bump into some blog a couple of days ago on which the author declared that they were kind of bored with blogging, a sentiment with which I could sympathise. Recent news has been pretty dull, and there hasn't been much else going on that isn't a repeat of the usual thing – "Spaces is down once again etc." followed by "Now Spaces is back again etc." Perhaps it's time to try a thematic blog of some sort. So far I've opted for quodlibet blogs, generally covering news, computers, dully daily life, film and book reviews, and languages and linguistics. There are enough news- (or politics-) themed blogs of varying sorts. There are blogs about computers and computing which, from the ones I've seen, appear to be little better than advertising and are seldom interesting. There are also plenty of daily life blogs, but my daily life is insufficiently interesting for that to be the sole theme on which I blog. A film blog?...

Perhaps I've been overdoing it. I'm taking a chance by starting a blog on blogspot. All right, if you've followed the link here from Green Bamboo [Defunct link deleted.], it's because once again I'm unable to post anything. I don't know why exactly, just as I don't know why I was suddenly able to post again this afternoon. I may learn the answer to at least one of these questions in due course. My current theory is that there's a limit on the number of entries you can post in a specific period on Spaces. I don't know whether there's also a limit on the number of RSS feeds you can have at any one time, but when I checked my stats, I'd had a whole bunch of 'em, and my hit count had reached 3214. Anyway, I suspect that it's the number of posts that's done for me. And why is starting a blog here taking a chance? Because Nanny in her infinite hysteria might block blogspot yet again [There was much on-off blocking of blogspot bef...