I won’t know what to do with myself

I just fin­ished mark­ing 43 stu­dent Web sites. The only thing left to do is triple-check the attend­ance and par­ti­cip­a­tion scores, print it all out, take it in to the uni and deal with the poten­tial fal­lout. The stu­dent I thought was going to fail...

Oh. My. God.

One of my stu­dents just sent me this link: http://​infocom​.else​where​.org/. So, I tel­net­ted and now I can play the ori­ginal text ver­sion of Zork. hawk_eye or pluces, did I take our ori­ginal box set of this or did one of you guys? I’d love to...

Double standards

So how do you reckon we’d go with a “US into Darfur” protest? Can we sell it to them on the same grounds as Afgh­anistan and Iraq? “You guys are so pleased with yourselves for rout­ing the evil Taliban who hurt so many women, and the nasty Saddam with his...

Happy birthday, Good Weekend

I don’t remem­ber the first issue of the Good Week­end in the Sydney Morn­ing Herald in 1984. The earli­est edi­tion in my col­lec­tion is dated 1987. I have a cup­board full of Good Week­ends, not every issue, but every sig­ni­fic­ant one. Pride of place...

Free Fallujah

Emer­gency protest for Fal­lu­jah, 5pm in Mel­bourne city. What’s hap­pen­ing there is pretty much like a local leader (say Bracks) stand­ing up to a US-appoin­ted Howard and then the US sent in troops with guns. At least, that’s my understanding. ...