Bad English by Darren Rigby in Perpignan, France: Agrégation anglais 2009, CAPES anglais 2009

Monday, May 05, 2003

Whatever happened to Atlanta's Balls?

Atlanta's Balls was set up in order to make finding John Donne resources online a tad easier for people preparing the French Agrégation d'anglais. As old John has had two years on the syllabus, I think we can safely retire his part of the site to graceful linkrot.

So it's goodbye Atlanta's Balls... and hello Bad English!

For info, the most popular part of those pages was the section, visited by ooh about 85 people a day, mainly from the USA and France.The ton of MP3 audio files that I offered to the renaissance-starved masses didn't seem to fly off the server like hot cakes though. Bet if I put the new album by Massive Attack up things would be different.

Speaking of which, MA are offering extra content to visitors to their website who already own one or more of their albums.

"You can now view Massive Attack content if you own Blue Lines, Protection, No Protection or Mezzanine. The more albums that you own, the more content you will be able to preview. This is the first time ever that fans have been able to use multiple albums to receive increasing items of content - the technology has been developed by IDIL Systems who 'fingerprint' the albums so that they recognise the valid CDs."

Well, I reckon I'll be able to see something if I show them my copy of Mezzanine. Don't know about Blue Lines and Protection though... ;-)

Anyway, I doubt if I'll be doing a John Donne style set of pages on a new Agrégation subject, the AgreGang discussion list takes up a bit of time and maybe this blog can be a useful tool in that respect. Maybe I'll just be tempted to ramble on about any old subject without a care. Anyway, I'm having to do this with Blogger (I don't think Movable Type will function on my ISP as they don't allow you to execute CGI scripts. Neither have I installed an "Add a Comment, Send Hatemail "section yet, even if the three people who will read this probably already have my phone number and probably couldn't give a toss anyway. All in good time.

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