HiSciFi: Temporary Down


I am wading through your letters and emails and thank you for sending words of concern. Many have asked why the postings and the show have been “off air” for a few weeks now?

Our host station, CJSF 90.1FM has experienced some server changes / errors… call it what you want, either way a few shows that were recorded live have literally disappeared into the ether, leaving me in tears. I wouldn’t be sentimental, but after working my little butt off to arrange the interviews, and bring you the select news in an audio form, losing a copy of those seemed horrific, demoralizing and plain discouraging.

Next few weeks are looking up though – we will have an interview by Kipleigh Brown, Chase Masterson, and none other than Peter Mayhew, better known as Chewbacca.

Coolness galore we have prepared for you aside, the news have been killing me, softly.

Between debilitating arguments in an economic recession regarding money, copyright, eroding rights and freedoms, net neutrality, Pirate Bay, torrent technology, and more devastatingly, environment and climate change…I needed to take a personal break for a few weeks…a la vacation, to clear my head so to speak.

So do forgive me for being MIA for a week or two, and I hope you come back to visit us again, and as always, and most faithfully, listen to our show.

Sincerely,
Irma Arkus

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  • genevieve

    looking forward to the show again, and I’ve been missing the articles.

  • deebee

    Great to see your posts again, Irma! The show quite literally airs in the dead of night for me (Netherlands), so I’m relying on archives and HiScifi’s mp3′s to listen to it. I e-mailed CJSF to say their archives aren’t working, and I got an e-mail back saying they’re working on it, but as I type this CJSF’s podcasts and downloads still comes up ‘temporarily disabled due to technical difficulties’.

    I understand CJSF is a university-sponsored station? From what I remember from my university days, things that break tend not to get fixed, unless it annoys a few bigwig professors in their publish or perish game. Anyway, I hope there’s some way to record the show again soon.

  • irma

    Thanks deebee – my frustration is neverending…I blew a gasket a few weeka ago after I realized that NOTHING is working like it should. CJSF is currently dysfunctional, and I feel like I am doing nothing but wasting time – anyone has a station out there lemme know.

    Meanwhile, this week things should be back on track.

    Thank you for writing and listening deebee.