Meh...

To all of you who care about my academic career and achievements, I spoke to my lecturer about the terrible mark of 18/25 and he gave me two more marks. Last week was the week of the whining and dining methinks.

I saw Richard E. Grant on More than Enough Rope last night. I only got to see the last 15 minutes or so and feel sad that I missed out on the entire show. I love Richard and I love the honesty that Andrew Denton reveals in these goings over old interviews. I should watch tv more often. However, what compelled me to make a comment was that Richard revealed himself to be a diarist. This admission made me miss writing in a diary and how wonderful it is to read back on entries, regardless of how painful they are. I guess that this blog is a diary and in the future, if it is still accessible, it will form part of all the diary style projects or books I have written or contributed to. I wonder about the public nature of this diary sometimes, although I do not contribute much of myself to it, but then Richard E. Grant made the comment last night about publishing old diary entries to make money. I guess in this scenario writings are selected and Richard has control over what is public and what remains private. He would probably also edit or at least know he could edit if he wanted to.

I have gone back and edited entries in this blog. This is the crux of digital technologies and why archiving them is an incredibly important issue. This blog is completely editable at all times. Once I have edited there is no record to say that I have made changes. No one knows what these changes are and anyone who gets access to this account can make changes. I can completely revise my life if I choose to. The same thing is not possible of paper diaries. Sure, things can be changed - pages can be ripped out, entries scribbled over, even whole books destroyed, but there is evidence of this occurring (maybe not in the complete annihilation one though). A diary with a page missing tells a story as much as the entry would itself. In this electronic diary, this is not possible unless I say that I have omitted an entry and posted a marker to tell everyone I have done so. What a wanker!