Monday, May 02, 2005
Bah!
So there's been plenty to blog about during my two week or so absence: the amusing Saturday night I spent a couple of weeks ago, my response to Nick's response to this post, my updated sidebar (check out Crushed by Inertia for movie reviews and some excellent commentary on American politics), the updated "Everything You Could Ever Want to Know" link (in which it is now revealed that I'm an Irish Charmer at heart), Canadian politics, the discovery that Jeffrey Adams is a big Paul Simon fan. . . but what finally brought me back?
This.
Jones' approach, needless to say, is more legislatively militant:
In conclusion, what a bunch of fascist pig-dogs.
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So there's been plenty to blog about during my two week or so absence: the amusing Saturday night I spent a couple of weeks ago, my response to Nick's response to this post, my updated sidebar (check out Crushed by Inertia for movie reviews and some excellent commentary on American politics), the updated "Everything You Could Ever Want to Know" link (in which it is now revealed that I'm an Irish Charmer at heart), Canadian politics, the discovery that Jeffrey Adams is a big Paul Simon fan. . . but what finally brought me back?
This.
To: vp.studentlife@su.ualberta.ca
From: sarcasticidealist@gmail.com
I see that "Comments and suggestions for the new board can directed to
the VP Student Life", so I thought I'd share mine.
1. If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
2. If it is broken, be prepared to present some evidence to that effect.
3. If you intend to fix it, whether or not it's broken, involve the
people who use it in the discussion of the fix, maybe by setting up
some sort of online discussion forum to allow them to discuss it.
4. If part of the fix, inexplicably, involves killing it in advance
for a period of time, provide some advance warning of this.
5. Try to avoid being dinks about it.
I think that about sums it up.
Jones' approach, needless to say, is more legislatively militant:
Pursuant to SU Bylaw 500 ss. 2(1) and 3, I would like to request a copy of the public portions of the (former) SU webboard. For the purposes of this request, I mean the portions of the webboard that a guest would have been able to see, immediately before it having been shut down.
I believe that this is essentially the entire database, minus private messages and any non-public information (e.g. email addresses). My preferred format for this would be as a MySQL database dump. I'm happy to coordinate with Marc or the SU tech staff on the technical details of this request.
If this request will incur costs for retrieval and reproduction, please send me an estimate before retrieving and reproducing the data.
Cheers,
Chris
In conclusion, what a bunch of fascist pig-dogs.
