\t\t\t\tthe preceding message was brought to you by the letter H, that ladder-like
\nspoke in the wheel of verbiage which spasmodically blasted off and all
\nover the screen. i don’t know why, but the letter H just needed to express
\nitself. it may have been the keyboard. it may have been the terrorists.
\nmost likely it is the piece of shit known as the motorola droid that
\ninexplicably freaked out.<\/p>\n
whatever the case, it’s a new day for .MOBI. i am sitting at a pub with
\nthe netbook i bought yesterday at PC Richard. so far, it functions as the
\ntypewriter-type thing i had in mind. the droid+keyboard concatanation
\ncan’t work any more. the screen was too small but more notably the
\nbluetooth connection made certain that whole words and vistas of
\nexpressive backwash would be lost to the inferior realm of unrecoverable
\nkeystrokes.<\/p>\n
i got some writerly-oriented software, but nothing seems to let me do what
\ni did on the droid, which was type into a text editor and move that text
\nfile to e-mail, and send it here. oh, wait, some of these things allow
\nthat, but on a 10″ screen i need full-screen with no floating buttons and
\ntoolbars strangely announcing that “YOU ARE NOW IN FULL SCREEN MODE” when
\nthe full screen mode should be absent of such eyesores. for that reason i
\ncan not use Open Office, since its full screen mode includes a fat,
\nannoying button that can not be removed. MS Word’s full screen mode, as I
\nrecall, includes a similar hocker. some of the bare-bones text-editor
\nsoftwares have perfect full-screen modes, but no obvious way to shovel
\ntext from there to e-mail, and then to here.<\/p>\n
so i am on an SSH line right now, typing into Pine e-mail, getting used to
\nthis new environment, the new screen and the future of writing text.
\nnothing communicates chaos and confusion as perfectly and succinctly as
\ntext.<\/p>\n
i can not write at home any more. or maybe i just won’t. either way, it
\ndoesn’t work at the homefront any more. no more text from home.<\/p>\n
this little carry-all cost but $300, about as much as I remember a decent
\nSmith-Corona costing back in the day. and this is but a typewriter. the
\nweb access is handy but not too vibrant.<\/p>\n
i feel like i am being dishonest to the .MOBI charter. *my* .MOBI charter,
\nthat is. to me the .MOBI charter was to post content by the skin of one’s
\nteeth, by the slender tendrils of wireless connectivity, in a way that
\nexacerbates and draws its vitality from the poor quality of cell phone
\ncalls. everything at .MOBI used to go out over the Verizon. now it goes
\nout over the stolen WiFi. which is more perilous?<\/p>\n
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