Every so often someone sends me a digital image or asks me for one. A picture is worth a thousand words, my friends like to remind me. Each and every time I have to explain that my Internet connection via the phone is working rather well, or at least satisfactorily, but that the capacity of the telephone line does not allow for high-resolution images. It takes forever to either send or receive a low-resolution image, let alone something a bit more fancy. I have long given up on sending pictures, and I must go to my Internet service-provider’s website to zap all files containing them whenever I notice that the system has started spinning in place. This is my clue. A single high-resolution picture can hold up my electronic-mail traffic for a very long while. I can go for a broadband connection, of course, but I am a bit uneasy about installing it because I do not have much good experience with people dabbling in such services here in Istria. Nearly every time anyone has touched my computer it has taken me hours or days to put it back in shape. Apple computers are far from popular in Istria, as well as Croatia as a whole, and few people even dare touch them. This is how things stand at present, and this is how they are likely to remain for quite some time. Anyhow, who says a picture is worth a thousand words? Try to put these two-hundred and fifty-odd words into a picture!