dakretz said:
>   I had a car like this once. The turn signal
>   was on the right side of the steering column.
>   The headlight dimmer was on the left side.
>   The window winders worked backwards.
>   The inside door locks would lock when you pulled them up,
>   and unlock when you pushed them down.
>   An iconoclastic car' which was one reason I liked it.

funny how much we are willing to deviate from "the standard"
when we are making the decision to do so for our own reasons,
and how unwilling we are to do so when someone else asks us...

marcello would jump through all kinds of hoops to make his own
preferred formats work, but he won't do jack shit for anyone else.

if you're not gonna make a mobi version that runs on the kindle,
there isn't much sense in making a mobi version at all, is there?

but like all technocrats, marcello is great at displacing the blame:
"if it doesn't work for you, it must be your fault.  not my problem."

and even if another "project gutenberg volunteer" were to _solve_
this particular problem, i doubt marcello would mount the solution.
i don't know who gave him this power to decide what gets blessed
and what doesn't, but i wish they would now take it away from him.

-bowerbird