bookmark_borderAn Experiment on Blogs

An Experiment on Blogs, is the site of Scott Nowson who is producing a PhD on bloggers writing styles. I’ve had the privilege of providing some early feedback and now he needs your help.

There is a questionnaire to be filled in, and he is collating data as well. I’m genuinely interested in seeing the results of this one, so go and help out.

Updates will be posted on his blog, Blogademia.

(Ohh and sorry Scott for not posting this early, best of luck!!)

bookmark_borderVictimising the victim?

First public gay high school to open in NYC.

This story is all over the place at the moment, but when has that ever stopped me throwing in my tuppence worth…

The main question: Is this a good or a bad thing?

Well I think, short-term, for the kids involved it is a good thing. It will allow them to attend school in a fear-free environment.

Long-term this is bad (well not bad, more … wrong) on a few counts. The kids are not experiencing a real world environment. Prejudice will greet them when they leave school, unfortunately that’s just fact. The protective environment the school will offer will leave them unprepared for the harsher realities of real life.

I also fail to see how this school will help tackle the key issue that underlies this whole matter.

What really bothers me the most about this, if I may focus on myself for a moment (hey it’s MY site), is that I should really be supportive of this kind of thing, but more and more frequently I find myself almost, almost, reaching for the ‘positive discrimination argument. That really worries me.

I do hope that this school works, and I realise the driving issue behind it is a good one, and I really should stop over analysing these things. I think I’ve been reading too much Vaughan…

bookmark_borderNuts

It’s just lack of sleep I know. But how come, when you are really really tired, you can’t get to sleep!!

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bookmark_borderPah

Lethargic, run-down, wanna be anywhere else.

Wallpapered bathroom (well Mum & Dad did it and I helped for the high bits), and now just the finishing touches to be done.

Ohh and a website design to finish.

Ohhh and road tax to buy, gate hinges to order, and … ohh lots of little jobs that I keep putting off.

It’s only a blip, a temporary downturn, a minor glitch.

Ultimately, I can’t be arsed. I wanna go and lie in my bed. For a week. Or five.

Pah.

(Probably just after effects of Blogathon, I know, I know… but still… pah…)