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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