My lit magazine online, Bent Pin, formerly Bent Pin Quarterly, has closed. The problem is computer-related. Either software degradation or upgraded OS 10.6.2 incompatibilities with iWeb 08 or perhaps hard drive sector corruption or SOMETHING, caused the files that contained the editable nugget of Bent Pin on my computer to transform into a chaotic mess, missing page titles, running text down the side of the page, disappearing text or text boxes, missing titles or authors of works, missing artwork.... The back-up was in the same condition, BUT the previously published ezine pages on my iDisk are okay! I don't know why this happened. The problem in iWeb is, all my sites are in the program and I cannot find a way to update one site without the others. I have no desire to upload this confused mess and obliterate the archive of beautiful pages which still exists online.
I guess I could swat my head against the wall a few times. I could curse and swear, eat a gallon of vanilla, drink rum, or throw things, maybe just wallow.But I am not going to do any of those things.
the archive is at: ______
UPDATE Aug 22, 2011 The archive and index are both moving - visit http://bentpinquarterly.blogspot.com
UPDATE Aug 22, 2011 The archive and index are both moving - visit http://bentpinquarterly.blogspot.com
The photo (taken over a decade ago by a friend, Richard Nethercott ) of me looking through a sculpture in the Aldrich Museum's outdoor garden, sums it up well. Right now I am trapped behind big impenetrable artifice of technology that is not working right at this time.
-- Mar Walker
