"The grand irony of our times is that the era of computers is over. All the major consequences of stand-alone computers have already taken place... In contrast, all the most promising technologies making their debut now are chiefly due to communication between computers - that is, to connections rather than to computations."

Kevin Kelly, "New Rules for the New Economy," Wired 5.09, Sept. 1997


The hotel dial tone is incommunicado to my modem, but I find another that's more obliging. Standing at the information desk while checking my email, museum visitors ask me questions until I put the words together - or not - to send them elsewhere. I feel very conspicuous in my digital consumption.

Gran Canaria belongs to Spain, and by plane it's a half-hour from Morocco. Cristobal Colon - Christopher Columbus - slept here. Las Palmas was his departure port, with orange seeds, disease, and imminent disaster onboard.

Spanglish, Italnol, and Franglais drive our private conversations, leaving verb conjugation and vocabulary like wreckage all over the road.

African grasses and cactus line these twisting passes, while flower, tomato, and banana plantations spread across the flatter hills. Tourist farms encircle the best beaches and there are towns where you need only speak German. That is, if you can.

May 1998
s
m u g
mystery date
by Vivian Selbo

Vivian Selbo is an artist who spent a good three and a half years behind the screen at äda'web. If you want to stalk her now, just click on over to Cavil. She's bound to turn up sooner or later.

-> Subject: the question of the Mail System Error

"This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:

A message was not delivered because a loop was found in the Mail eXchanger record database (the MX loop condition). The destination host has an MX record that points to this host, but there is no account for the designated recipient."

Because a "loop" eXchanger Mail was a record "condition," (the MX message) was delivered in the found database. The "destination" host loop has no designated "record" host that points to this "recipient." There is an account but not for the MX.

A "condition" was delivered because a "destination" Mail "recipient" eXchanger was found in the "loop" that points not to the (message the MX). There is for the host this host "record" loop database, but an account MX has designated no record.

A "recipient" "loop" was found.

A "record" "condition" was designated.

but.

There is no account for the delivered "record" "recipient" "destination" "loop" "condition". The host host loop was a database message (the MX) found because the record was in, but this MX has not designated an eXchanger that points to a Mail.

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