Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Earlier I was trying to log in to a site using the technician's computer in the lab. I was surprised to see that the certificate to the site is considered invalid, even though it was stated to be "valid starting April/22/2008". So I checked the computer clock. It said January 2002. No wonder.

I had to adjust the time to the present. Then I had to go back to one of the entries I made in one of my personal sites, just to check if the site uses universal time or the computer time.

It was the latter, so my post appeared in the listing as the very first one, made in 2002, before I even registered at that site.

Therein lie the travails of relying too much on supposed self-checking technology.

It doesn't end there though. I had several log in accounts open from before I corrected the date and time. When I refreshed those pages, I had been logged out, presumably because the sites thought there had been a long time since my last activity according to their time lapse checkers, as in six years, so I was automatically logged out of all of them and had to log in again.

Now I know how those writers who went on to pen those "machines supposedly serving man going on to destroy humanity" must have felt like.

@@ I'm now in my lab class, and because of the BA week celebration, I have to figure in students wanting to go there and buy at some of the food booths during our three hour session.

So I've instituted a limit of up to two people leaving with permission every hour to buy food or drinks for the whole class.

It's better than being a killjoy, and it also tells me the noteworthy wares at the bazaar without having to spend a lot of time browsing.

Although I could spend a whole new entry talking about the anomalies of this fair.

Session 2433 is wary of appearing like postponing about writing about an important but tedious subject. Class dismissed.