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March 6th, 2006
Unplanned Outage #1
As promised I’m counting and recording unplanned site outages, and this if the first (that I know of) for March. My site was down around 10:00 p.m. this yesterday evening (March 5th); e-mail was also affected. I’m not sure how long it was out for because I was mostly watching the Academy Awards, which event deserves its own entry and cannot be further remarked upon here (for fear of blowing all manner of valves and circuitry). Perhaps an entry on the awards ceremony later, but not tonight Josephine. (In any case I’m sure the world will get on quite alright without hearing another thing about them.) Apologies for any inconvenience caused by the outage.
[...] Not a maximum security facility, sure, but certainly not the kind of place where you want to wax philosophical on questions of appropriate conduct. Showing sex scenes to sex offenders, bank robbers and murderers is a grey area that no government with an interest in retaining office will want to mess with. (Just so you know.) Sailing past such issues the BBC story rather blithely implies the obviousness with which the Massachusetts Corrections Department should have to defend its punishment of the officer who showed the movie in contravention of policy. Brokeback Mountain was, after all, a brilliant, moving and important piece of cinema. (Which should have won best film.) Nevertheless, sex it contained. A statement by a spokesperson for the Department denies that the officer’s transgression was in allowing inmates to watch a homosexual story, but rather for allowing them to view certain sexually explicit scenes. [...]
April 10th, 2006 at 9:19 pm #