“Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.” -Aphra Behn

DESKTALK:  I think the world just passed me by. Everything seems to be changing so much and so quickly it’s hard to keep up. My work shown here (however cryptic it may seem) in this video is an example.

To accomplish what I need to accomplish in an effort to preserve decades of my webwork (namely Vermilion Views) requires more time “to learn” how to prepare a document to make it possible. It’s not enough to have initially learned how to write all the hypertext for the original Vermilion Views site. Now, to save that information (i.e. all the text and pix) I must rewrite (or better said, unwrite) the links that allow folks to visit pages on the original site, and place them into a new format that will ensure all the work isn’t lost when I’m no longer around to continue paying for the site.

My work is not terribly valuable. But it is useful for persons interested in exploring and / or preserving the history of our community.

For a five or ten-year old child this process, from beginning to end is likely very elementary stuff. To an old buck (and I use that work to be nice) like myself it’s like learning Chinese.

The way it looks right now is that I’ll be loading the pages manually into the archive. Again, it’s a clerical task that will require lots of time.

However (and that’s a big, big HOWEVER). I am determined to succeed.

(Later in the day) I have been, thus far, very, very fortunate.  Maybe I should get an “A” in determination. I was able to get most everything into the “Wayback Machine”.