It's at times like this morning - when the N2 was stationary as far as the eye could see, and Durban Road was little better - that the Pinelands branch of the Retroid Kollektiv explores his CD library (given that he is not permitted to play things loudly at home, for fear of interfering with House, or Private Practice, or Army Wives).
And he should have known - but somehow forgot - just what a good blues band Fleetwood Mac were, back there in 1970 (yes, that's why the title). As were Jethro Tull. And Gravy Train. Because it's the blues that calms the road rage as the taxis come roaring along past stalled traffic in the wrong lane; when morons run red lights to clog up Durban Road so traffic feeding in from Raapenburg can't get in with their green light - and when a Jammie shuttle pulls out in front of one again there by Condom Heights (aka Leo Marquard Hall), without signalling, and without due regard for bodywork.
Ah, me...
Got them almost-southern suburbs blues, mama
Got them commuter rage blues
Got them suburbian blues, babe
Right down, to my shoes
Stuck here in slow-down mode, yeah
With them N2 rush-hour blues....
From ICTS this evening:
Dear UCT staff and students,
In order to try to resolve the DNS problems affecting Internet access and external mail delivery, we need to reboot our edge router at 17h00.
IMPACT:
The restart should take about 10 minutes. During this time, there will be no access to the Internet and no internet mail will be delivered. All mail will be queued and delivered once the router is back up.
Thank you for your patience while we restore services.
Regards,
ICTS Communications
Plus ca change, plus c'est la same chose....
As aficionados of this blog (yes, both of you) may know, I am wont to distort Szekspir on occasion...and in this case, it would be to say: "Groupwise, Groupwise; wherefore art thou, Groupwise? For thou art not on my home PC, my Blackberry or the Web, so where the frak* ART thou???"
Was it only in June I said "Jou Groupwi'se m***!"...and Transplant_Ed was moved to ask "GroupWise or GroupWoes?" back in March,I see...because the woes double and redouble; the wont's are even more frequent, and the sound of despair is heard in UCTland. Which place could start with another lower-case letter, as some T-shirts are seen to, as it would then aptly describe the predicament.
MY FRAKKIN'* GROUPWISE ACCOUNT IS INACCESSIBLE!!!
AGAIN!!
Not that I wanted any email this weekend, not really: only the exercise programme emailed to me by a biokineticist (the back is sort of improving, thank you; but I keep having to TRY to work from home!!); only info on how/whether I would be going to Brazil; only whether some arrangements regarding impending trips to Pretoria will happen or not...and I can get no dates more recent than 10/9 via my home installation of G'wise, and the Web server comes back with
- despite my having changed my password - AGAIN!! - via the ICTS service.
Really, folks, really: Groupwise is a piece of shit, and we can do better. PLEASE!!??
* = Perfectly respectable word; they use it a lot in Battlestar Galactica.
