On my various Linux boxes, Gmail has gone all coy — meaning, I could access it but not send or save drafts — and I was poking around for a while looking for a fix. It looks like another URL thing. I banged my head against this for a while, and then found something in one of the Google forums somewhere that seemed to fix it: https://mail.google.com/mail/s/ Except that now I can’t even post to my blog without trying this https:// trick, and I can’t submit info to forums. In fact, uploading any kind of information at all seems to …
Month: December 2006
Cut Cable in Hong Kong
Yes, if you tried to connect to my website today, and couldn’t, it’s because some kind of underwater cable in Hong Kong (where this site is being hosted) was cut. They’re working on it, but access has been sporadic for a while.
Starting to Understand Form Letter Responses
I’m ripping my way through a pile of somewhat-unimportant assignments, and the killer is, I’m not sure which students expect feedback and which don’t… but I am pretty sure that not all of them do, and I’m also pretty sure that some of them very much do want some. However, the feedback and the grading process are not the same thing. Havng discovered that the wait for a tourist visa to China is no less than 2 days (or, at a cheaper rate, 4 days minimum), I will have a little time next week to add comments to some of …
Inter-Hakwon Warfare
The Hankyoreh has a story about accused teaching method-piracy: An English teacher at a language institute in Seoul has been indicted on allegations that lectures she delivered to her students were stolen from a neighboring institute. I think I have a defense. Look for the original text which the original institute’s examples were stolen from. Teachers are unrepentant thieves. They also are often happy to share, since they stole themselves. I am somewhat doubtful that the teaching material was wholly original in this case. If it was, they should have published a textbook, in order to further learning. If that …
Goodbye, Cavendish Banana?
Oh, no, not again.