see if this works
i might move this little mobile-only portion of the site to its own domain. sorabji.mobi, which already exists, but for what purpose i have no clear excuse. i echo some content from sorabji.com and i use it myself for weather, WHOIS lookups, and other nonsense but, like most .mobi domains, it is not so much a waste of space but it is a waste of domain space. .mobi, as originally chartered, was intended for sites that were designed to be viewed on mobile devices. .mobi, in its early days of 2005 and 2006, felt a bit like .com in 1995: an uninspiring wasteland of mostly garbage content with a few ambitious exceptions. it turns out .mobi is basically unnecessary, with templating systems and browser recognition in content management systems and web servers making it easy for webmasters to automatically generate mobile-ready versions of content without need for a different TLD. like .info and some other gimmicky TLDs i think the only entities who benefitted from .mobi are the registrars who collected payments for the registrations. nevertheless i have a .mobi and rather than throwing it out i might try a different approach. if .mobi was intended for content designed to be sent to mobile devices then its limited use in that capacity invites a turning of the tables. i think i shall use my .mobi as a place for content which comes only from mobile devices, with industry-standard browser recognition tricks to format content for mobile devices as appropriate to the .mobi charter. i can‘t imagine i am the first to have thought of this, but .mobi is an extinguished inspiration in its original intent. and, really, who cares. it‘s as simple as moving some files around. in the past i kept this content-from-phone kind of obscure, and i still block it from being indexed by the searchies, on account of the sometimes too-free nature of things that land here (similar, again, to my early adventures in writing for the Intertubes). there is no reason i can not block a whole .mobi just the same.
i played the bach english suites for hours today, and yesterday, and i wandered through a new-to-me polonaise by scriabin. it‘s in b-flat minor, and it feels like b-flat minor (vast, and hard to grasp), but once again i find myself surprised by scriabin‘s thickness. there are measures in this single piece that i simply can not read. the same happened in one of the op 42 etudes. somehow, the dude just writes stuff i can not fucking READ. he needed 3 staves, maybe. it might just be these inferior editions i have.
i decided to give Amazon Prime a try. the first monht is free, but for $79 a year i get free 2-day shipping on anything Amazon sells. that excludes the marketplace, which is where i buy lost of things, and it rules out delivery to my PO box, which is where most of my amazon purchases get sent. amazon uses fedex and random courier services for it‘s Prime deliveries. i was thinking i could easily make my $79 back by buying everyday things. if i wanted to buy a copy of those Bach English Suites in Manhattan it would cost $4.50 to get there and back (subway/bus fare) unless i walked both ways. well, i don‘t know, this trial period of amazon prime produced some immediate irritation, when stuff that was guaranteed to be delivered in 2 days was in fact delivered overnight. i am sure that somewhere in the fedEx culture it is believed that they are doing me a favor, but the reality is otherwise.
ok, then… going to see if this works. i am writing into NoteEverything, a text editor, versus the usual Email client
