Enslaved by the shiny new stuff…

(Note: This is NOT a “rabbit hole post,” although…)

*sigh*

Oh, everything is going quite well. It’s just…change. Even good change. Nasty inconvenient thing, makes you late for dinner. (and workouts. 🙁 )

Eudora got all wanky, and I’m not sure that’s because of Windows 7. It’s an obsolete program, no longer supported, and I’ve been cheating and copying it onto new machines chiefly because I have so much important e-mail in it–going back to around 1996 or so!

But I decided today it was time to say good-bye to creaky old Eudora. So I downloaded Thunderbird and imported my entire Eudora database into it. Holy mackerel. Thunderbird didn’t know what hit it. I think I have e-mail that predates the World Wide Web! *wry smile*

But it’s all in there! Except for the very recent few things from yesterday and today (because of the wankiness, index files weren’t updating)–but I’m going to fudge around and recover those manually.

Thunderbird.
Firefox.
Quicktime Pro [paid for that one–and it’s worth it].
iTunes [it’s like Google–you can’t escape it!].
Sony Vegas Movie Studio.
Audacity.
mIRC [for the second time, used my old registration key and activated a new copy on a new computer].

I still need to do more! Safari. Chrome. Sony ACID, I think. Whatever I turn out to need for the digital camera, camcorder and microphone, if anything. The Bamboo Tablet, I hope. And I may need to buy a couple of really long USB cables. And a mousepad! Right now I’m using the digital camera’s User’s Manual just because it was there. 🙂

On the plus side: so far, I’m not having any problems with Windows 7 and I kind of like it. I really like Office 2007, including Outlook. When I installed InDesign CS4 on this system I finally fixed that problem with the extra fonts that wouldn’t install. I had to install a couple of fonts manually because I used them in the book block of The Longer the Fall and that worked perfectly, InDesign recognized them the second I copied them over. In fact…I’m kind of amazed at how well things are going.

This makes me nervous, heh. I’m guess I’m too (a) pessimistic (b) computer-savvy. *wry smile* But at least I’m a techie, I don’t panic easily, I have three other computers and I do daily backups. If my ass was covered any more than that, I couldn’t sit down!