Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
My myself in the summer heaven, godlike
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Something more of the depths–and then I lost it.
Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.

Nothing.

Recent hubub at work about CITES migrating people over from students/staff cluster to their email and netfile replacement services prompted me to actually switch over. I still value my staff account, and will miss it when it gets deactivated. For now, I still have it, and the CITES replacement stuff.

CITES broke students into two pieces: Express Email, a blackboxed email solution they’re providing campus, and NetFiles, a DAV-based file front end to do the file sharing and web hosting. I hate to say it, but these services really are an improvement to the old cluster. The DAV stuff is neat because I can actually use that quota space from my Windows boxen, and share things, cleanly between systems. I used to FTP up homework and such from my home computer to print from a campus lab. I also had a bunch of little quotes and poems and stuff saved there for plans; thus the Robert Frost above.

But their email solution doesn’t have a spam component (or at least CITES didn’t purchase it,) so for the time being I’m going to stick with CS’s mail.