“Temporarily Offline” or How I came to stop worrying and love my degree programme
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007(Yes a blatant plagiarism of Doctor Strangelove’s title, but meh… fair use, I claim 
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Well, seeing as my sleep patterns seem to be fubar, this morning I decided to have a quick look at all the websites I’ve neglected over the past few weeks/month or so and catch up on all the various happenings in the friendly world of cyberspace.
One such site was socgossip.com, a site which is geared towards letting a group of students from the School of Computing compose articles, some with meaningful content, and others a little more “imaginative”. The premise behind this site, IMO, is one of giving the students a non-academic-based forum in which to “gossip” about the others (and I use the term loosely) Most of the postings are syndicated from the personal blogs of the handful of authors, while one or two had authoring accounts on the system itself.
Now when I came to look upon the hallowed writings of my friends a little earlier on (c. 5.30 am - yes, AM!!), I was greeted by a message informing me that the site was “temporarily offline”, pending policy clarification from the School of Computing. “Strange,” I thought to myself.