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Visiting Tasmania for 2 weeks

This is just to let everybody know that I'm having a little holiday in Tasmania for approximately 2 weeks. Posting will be light, although there are a couple of things I've already drafted which may go up. Moderation of comments and trackbacks and responses to any emails will be slightly delayed. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience.

another tasered on campus - this time at SDSU

Originally found via the Easy Does it University blog (be careful if you're at work, this blog is NSFW). There's a statement by San Diego State University. I'm just posting this now. I have not had time to analyze this in any detail, so I'm wondering whether this is another example of tasers being used as pain compliance for non-aggressive resistance. At least this time it's not in a library. Meleggan, written by a current SDSU student, has more details.

Edit: There's more coverage in the SDSU student newspaper, the Daily Aztec. This publication says that individual in question became combative with officers, which became a physical confrontation with the officers.

when you need to forget the answer to remember the question

If you pride yourself on being competent at finding information, please skip this post. This post is for people who know they screw up sometimes. Oh and by the way, competency can be overrated!

when the internet is down

I'm not usually one to apologize for lack of updates, but I feel that an explanation is in order for the last month. It seems that there is some ongoing issue with my local phone exchange at Springwood, which has been causing intermittent outages in my ADSL connection. At least this is if I believe my ISP, who swear that the problem is caused by the phone lines, not by them.

It's amazing how a thing like this can put a spanner in the works, particularly in my blogging. It's very frustrating to think of a post and not be able to write or post it. It's not the same to draft something offline and then post it later, because often for me, writing and reading and research all go together. If I can't check sources and make links while I'm writing, I don't feel that I'm really writing a blog post - at the most drafting a post offline is like preparation for writing a post.

At least for me, every idea for a post only has a certain window of time to be published, and when that time expires, it is usually time to move on, even if it seemed like a really good idea originally. Things change, and what was interesting a month ago may seem a little stale if it's posted tomorrow.

Anyway, because it's such an almighty pain for me when the internet is down at home and I have no idea when it will return, I have arranged for limited dialup internet access as a backup. It's slow but at least it's reliable.