My web host decided to upgrade their servers without telling anyone first and as a result I was without my primary email account for the last five days. Honestly, I had to start rerouting to people to my (gasp!) gmail account, an account that I was trying to hold in secret until the end of the world when the only things left are google services and everyone has been googlefied. I never thought that I would be so agitated at having to go without my main email, I guess it just shows what an integral part of my daily communicative actions email has become. To top it all off, there were some troubles with the class website for the class I am teaching this summer. The Interwebs are conspiring against me.
In other news, I am once again back in Halifax teaching the history of popular music course “The Rock’n'Roll Era and Beyond”. The first week of classes is almost over and, as I expected, it has already been so much fun. I just get a huge kick out of teaching. It also helps that I have the privelege of teaching this particular course, I have been living with this music all my life, the only real difference is I get to talk about it at length with an interested group of students (and get paid for it!).
Today was one of those amazing Halifax days where one wakes up in a literal fog. I couldn’t see three feet out of my window, such was the thickness of the fog over the penninsula. And then, as suddenly as it had come late last night, the fog disappeared and I could see straight out of window across to Dartmouth.
Some links to lift the fog off the web a little:
- Claire works for cookthink now, and also has a good article up on blogcritics.
- danah boyd keeps putting out amazing stuff on social networking.
- It appears that Condoleeza Rice was, not surprisingly, involved in some pretty shady dealings with Chevron and Iraq.
- Tony Blair is stepping down, Gordon Brown likely to repalce him. I don’t know what to think - Bush’s lap-dog is gone, which is good, but Gordon Brown is a pretty scary character too, responsible for many of the “administrative” (er…surveillance) aspects of contemporary British daily life. I also hate the whole “Prime-minister in waiting” bullshit. What does it say about democracy when we start assuming who will lead a country, and when the mainstream media simply fuels the “inevitability” by focussing on this one potential leader?
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