I've moved Aries Moon to spies.com, and any minute now you will have to change your bookmark to www.intaglio.org in order to access my diary. I hope to have this done before the weekend; the part that I have control over is done, and the rest is up to my technical contact at spies. I'm excited about finally using my fancy schmancy domain name. I picked it out two years ago, I just never did anything with it because, and I say this with what I hope is engaging candour, I had no clue how to go about setting it up. I'm a low tech person. Computer stuff is not intuitive for me. Just working my way through the forms at networksolutions.com for designating the ISP I wanted as my domain server had me in a sweat and swearing like a stevedore (if a stevedore only knew four really bad swear words and repeated them endlessly in increasing volume).
But what is intaglio, you are possibly wondering? Well, my friends, I will tell you. It's the engraving process that produces the plates our paper currency is printed from, for one thing. For another, it's a gem carving technique. Cameos are an example of intaglio. It's a design in sharp, fine relief. I thought it apropos for what I write, and the way I write.
Not only am I about to embark on the seas of vanity with the domain name, but I will be setting forth in a new and gaudily embellished vessel. Yes, we are buying a new computer. We have ordered our G4 from Apple, and breathlessly await the arrival of a machine that can handle our home computing needs. I can't wait to actually read diaries at home instead of trying to sneak them in at work on our infinitely faster Pentiums there. I look forward to having more than five applications open at a time. John, of course, can't wait to fill up the hard drive with several gigs of scanned photos of movie stars and volleyball players. Oh, it's going to be a fine thing to have a fast computer. We really need it, if only to cut down on my stevedore swearing.
And now, all I have to do is wait. Wait for spies to sort out my redirected domain. Wait for Apple to deliver our computer. I think I'll go finish the book I'm reading about the race to develop European porcelain, Arcanum, and lose myself in a world where computers don't exist.
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