Very sorry to hear of your computer problems in Cardiff, Roger. If my
hands hadn't been burned in a fire set by an insane Republican terrorist
with a molotov cocktail, I would pitch in. Isn't there anyone out there
(or students [of a subscriber] needing a project) who could continue
Roger's valuable work on the archive? I feel as if I'm "burning" my
contributions to The Snapshot Project if they are not reformatted and
searched by Google, especially when the Poetryetc archive remains private
(for no reason a former list owner could recall). It was very pleasing,
for example, when the curator of a show of the painter Paul Brach called me
up out of the blue to ask whether he could include my text in his
catalogue, a text he had found by doing a search on the artist's name and
eventually locating my work amongst the section of The Snapshot Project
which Rebecca Seiferle had reformatted. Barry
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:40:15 -0700, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>The fuckwit of a landlord has decided to make things difficult for me
>with my internet connection by wanting NTL to lay the connection cable
>over the roof. NTL refuse to do such a thing because it would mean
>getting a cherry-picker - they can't use ladders at such a height
>because of the new H&S regs. Of course, they refuse to get a
>cherry-picker to do such a small job.
>
>I cannot update the archive from an internet cafe or the uni machines,
>where, as per normal, the facists of the "support" department treat
>the machines as their own personal property and not to be touched by
>the proles.
>
>I am stuck in this shithole for the next 10 months, so there will be
>no updates of the archive for the foreseeable future. I am frustrated
>and angry at having to disappoint my friends. And you have no idea how
>frustrating it is not to have a connection at my finger-tips, the
>limitations I now face. I am uncertain of my future as I have ever
>been.
>
>Roger
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