For what it’s worth

Posted on | March 31, 2005 |

Well, I really don’t know what to do about this wretched blog until I hear from Adrian, so I’ll just keep posting even though the archives are being held somewhere else and comments are currently impossible. How frustrating! Oh well, at least this whole experience is making me realise how much I now rely on blogging as part of my research. It also exacerbates my rather irrational but slightly cherished delusion that one day the whole web is just going to break (I thought it had yesterday when Blogger was having a little spack). Then those of us whose world completely stopped would realise that to most of the people on the planet our addictions are, as ever, irrelevant and indulgent.

Speaking of which, thanks for the emails with broadband tips. I’m leaning towards iinet, but it sounds as though their mac compatability is touch and go. Can anyone (local) confirm or deny? And I’m getting conflicting advice about wifi - do I need cable rather than ADSL or not? So confusing. Last night my friendly Telstra rep rang me up at dinner time to check whether I wanted to improve my account with them. Man, did I give that girl a work out! I really think she was making up most of her answers. And I really think that Telstra’s current “deal”–the fastest broadband there is free for 2 months–is a load of crap.

Ok. So after having put it through a number of test readings, and with most of my Deleuzian friends still talking to me, I’ve put my draft of ‘Theory as Party Starter’ in the writings to the right. With that trauma finally over, I’m now really getting in to plans for my book. It’s at that really exciting stage of a project when the ideas and possibilities are abundant but the reality of actually writing is blissfully distant. I can’t do this for any longer than probably the next day given my schedule. But hey, it’s the first book I’ve ever had the chance to write - quite possibly my last - so I better enjoy it.

Other very fab news is that the two journal issues I’m editing later in the year are already full: the counter-heroics issue of Continuum I’m editing with Jean, and an issue of M/C I’m doing on ‘affect’. The latter will feature some dear mates from the blogosphere, including the notorious Glen Fuller (currently frontline, with many others, in the war on poor old Windschuttle) and that jellywrestling wanna-be, sandy. Productivity, I am you right now.

Category: Research

Comments

4 Responses to “For what it’s worth”

  1. jean
    March 31st, 2005 @ 9:51 pm

    1. comments are working ;)
    2. I don’t think you have to have cable to have wireless
    3. Telstra in general is not known for their deals ;)
    4. Yay, productivity-wise!

  2. jean
    March 31st, 2005 @ 9:53 pm

    Oh, and mac compatibility?? Is that for the ADSL modem drivers or something? With cable, I just stick the network cable into the appropriate spot and it connects me automatisch-like

  3. Glen
    April 1st, 2005 @ 12:12 am

    notorious!

    ;D>

    (I have an ugly goatee in the works, plus I am winking like a rascal… think Johnny Depp in PotC crossed with the Myth Busters dude.)

    So… what makes me notorious, Dr Gregg?

    Surely Windschuttle does not deserve our sympathies?

  4. Christian McCrea
    April 4th, 2005 @ 4:08 pm

    Full journals? How is that good news? Where are my papers going to go? That’s it, I’m going to start my own journal!

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