At last, home sweet domain. I look forward to residing at Mindspring for many moons. I could not believe how much work it was to get set up, though. I've never worked with Unix before in any meaningful way. I keep finding glitches due to incompatible cases (upper and lower) which I never had to bother with on VMS. I don't really remember much about DOS, which I used to use quite a lot in the 80's, but Unix is clearly its mother. Perhaps it'll come back to me. It's always a gargantuan pain to have to adjust to doing something completely different. Whining helps. Well, it helps me, at any rate.
Of course, I also moved Archipelago at the same time (doubling my fun). It's now over at GeoCities and doing nicely. [Ed. note: since moved to spies.com.] If you haven't been to see it yet, have a look at the Archipelago Photo Page. I had a grand time setting that up. I altered all the images, by the way. None of the poor diarists knew what would happen when they sent them in. We all look quite brooding and artsy-fartsy, I think!
Another nifty thing that is in the works is my upcoming interview with the author of a new Jane Austen book. I'm going to talk about the Regency with her. It's my favorite historical period, and I'm inclined to drone on about it at the drop of a hat. I used to think no one cared as deeply as I do about getting the details right, but I realized a few years ago that there was a definite growth in the contemporary Regency book market. In fact, there must be several thousand women who love to lose themselves in the fantasy of living in Britain between 1811 and 1820, dancing at the Assemblies, drinking negus, pluckily swearing never to marry the cruel, hawklike, menacing viscount of one's father's choice, and the like. Someday, I'm going to write a Regency. Finish one, I mean. I've started one, but I got stuck at 17,000 words. First, I guess, I ought to learn how to write plots.
And now, I believe I'll go browse the web. It seems like ages since I just played online.