I am currently in one of those itty bitty patches of So Cal where there still is no broadband access. There is no cable TV, the sattelite signal is *so* weak that getting broadband over the direct tv service isn’t even worth the price increase. Yet less than 5 miles away I can get a coffee at the Coffee Bean and enjoy high speed access for an hour. I use the term *enjoy* loosley because I am downloading final projects from my students and I have to endure the flood of hate mail that comes whever I have to ask people to reupload an assignment so I can give it a proper grade. It doesn’t seem all that unreasonable request to me. I’m taking time off from my “vacation” to download and grade assignnments for these kids. The files were corrupted, I couldn’t access them to grade them, and I do my best to grade honestly, to give good helpful critiques. But no, because I cannot bend the laws of time, space and the internet to reach into their home computers to pull out the clean copies of these assignments, I have to put up with obnoxious hate mail. Gotta LOVE teaching :p