Thanks to Marko, my No. 1 son, who masterminded the rebuilding of the Residua website, and Paul Bazay, who set everything up, as well as helped me along in the grueling process of transferring and reformatting the content, the new site is finally alive and kicking. As well as under my complete and total control. It looks almost the same as the old site, set up by Simon Ray-Scott almost a decade ago, but it functions rather differently. It is built with blogging software, which makes it much easier to deal with. After so many years, I finally have a site that is truly alive. Although the visitor of the site can leave a mark only through the feedback function, which is in my able hands, it is still a blog. Nay, it is the mother of all blogs according to the experts among friends (“Blogging for True,” January 9, 2008). As witnessed by the title that crowns this piece, I am elated beyond measure. More, I am giddy after so many weeks of toil. From now on, all the new pieces, as well as all the addenda extending the old ones, will go directly to the World Wide Web. Wooosh. No more intermediaries! No more waiting! No more gnashing of teeth! Hooray!

Addendum I (February 14, 2008)

All these weeks I have been concerned with the transfer and reformatting of content from the old to the new Residua website. The transfer of the domain name (www.residua.org), which I have held since 2000, seemed to me a minor technical matter. I assumed it would take a minute or two, or at most an hour. As I learned from Paul after I wrote this piece, the transfer may take up to seventy-two hours. Gosh! At any rate, yesterday he made the official request for the domain-name transfer, and it will take at most a couple of days for the new site to kick in. After all these years, that much longer I should be able to wait. Or so I am reassuring myself every few hours. Nay, minutes.

Addendum II (February 18, 2008)

Seventy-two hours? Forget it. How about double that incredible number of hours?! Due to some unfathomable glitch, which will escape me forever, it has taken almost a week for the domain name to be transferred to a new server. All that is behind us, though. To hell with the silly glitch! The mother of all blogs is here, and it is here to stay. Once again, but for true, hooray!