Monday, 12 April 2004

fark

My reading list, which I've kept since 1990, I managed to fuck up. (I just came across "fark," and while I dislike fuck substitutes on principle, "fark" is the first that I like for its sound's sake.) I think it's not a big screw-up: only the authors' first names are wrong. But they are scrambled--it's in an Excel spreadsheet--in a way I can't figure out. Kingsley Updike wrote Rabbit is Rich. Douglas Dickens wrote Little Dorrit. At first I hoped they were all only a few cells off, but no.

The web version seems to be okay, so I can use that to fix the original, but I have no idea what I did. Except to use MS Office products on a Macintosh.