Blame It On the Internet
Schuld ist halt das Internet! After a several month hiatus I’m back in business. And just so you know: Nope, I’ve not been hiding. I’ve just been battling what’s called SPIC-disease, aka Severe-Poor-Internet-Condition disease. Yup. I call it a disease because it certainly needs intensive care and treatment if there’s ever to be a cure for it (though we’ve been informed that the powers that be are trying to work on it; we’ll see about that). Fact is, that right now we share our internet connection with tens of thousands of students of whom many only have one goal as soon as class is out: crowding our limited internet space and slowing down everything. For me that means that I only have a very tiny window of when I can actually access my wordpress site (the one that allows me to create posts and then upload them to the internet). This window of opportunity begins to phase out by around 10 a.m., and once the afternoon rolls around, things have deteriorated to a state of …