DAMNED COMPUTERS (September 2, 2007)

Paul Bazay, a website designer from Canada, has recently put together the nuts and bolts of the new Residua site. He is facing two problems, though. The first one is predictable enough: transferring a million-and-a-half words from the old site is far from easy. The feat requires a few clever software tricks and a good deal of luck. Anyhow, I am sure that Paul will crack this one soon. But the second problem is somewhat surprising, as well as rather annoying: my Macintosh computer, which I acquired in May 2002, is too old to support a browser that would allow me to properly view the new site, let alone to effortlessly feed it with new writings. As it turns out, the only remedy is a new computer. Thus I have already ordered an up-to-date Macintosh from an Apple store in Zagreb, but it will take them about a month to get it for me. Even though I have long planned such a purchase, it comes at an awkward moment. That is, at the moment when I am dying to try my luck with Paul’s emerging design. Damned computers, I am on the verge of growling. If only I dared.