Noise from the holidays
Over a week has passed, and the noise from Bye Bye 2008 on Radio Canada still hasn’t gone away. I missed the show. It’s one of the traditions in the province, and certain years have been extremely funny. This time around, a different production team with different production values took care of the salute to news as seen here. There are a lot of ruffled feathers out there. I’m going to end up hearing all the “juicy bits” just the same.
Without the time machine provided by YouTube, things might have died down as people returned to the mundane life around the office or the coffee shop. Now, a simple search by your kids will bring back the highlights, and in the glare of a new day some skits were just enough to tip perception in the direction of “too much and too little”. I’m not a fan of network censorship; CBC did the right thing in allowing the production team to present their show and then present their excuses.
Next year, someone else will have the opportunity to lampoon this year’s kerfluffle. Life in the public eye.
We lost network services around here this evening. My router stopped responding, and a call to the ISP brought service back for about two minutes before things stopped again. What on earth? After a number of resets, it was clear that this went beyond a wireless crisis. Both switches were flashing their distress. It turned out that the LAN party held here during the holidays wasn’t through leaving traces. A loop of cable was misplugged this afternoon, and suddenly my network was embroiled in a conversation with itself. Not good.
