Sunday, March 02, 2008

Not dragged kicking and screaming

Okay. I know this won't appeal to many, but there are still some of us out here who have a bit of a lag time and are easily amused. For example, I'm still not rich and hip enough to be Mac user. However, I am a recent convert to both Firefox and Gmail and am here to tell you I'm enjoying the hell out of discovering their comparative advantages. I'm writing them each a little love note.

Oh, Foxfire, I adore you. It thrills me to no end to be able to post links to my favorite Websites directly into a toolbar. When I was using another browser, it took a couple of extra clicks to get where I wanted to go. How did you know how impatient I've become? And the way you let me Stumble! around the Internet discovering interesting Websites excites my geeky blood.

You, Gmail, have made managing my ridiculously high volume of email so much easier. The way you automatically keep conversations bundled, allow me to tag messages and then retrieve all current and archived similarly tagged ones is so much more convenient than shuffling through folders. You keep my inbox visible even as I send replies, and it makes me feel grounded, like I'm not going to just spin off out into the ether.