Who Moved My Cheese?

I have recently had a lot of changes in my life when it comes to my computer. I have always been an Internet Explorer kind of girl and I was content in this role. All of this changed the other day when I began uploading all sorts of new and exciting applications at the impetus of my Walden professor. Skype, Delicious, wiki's, readers, rss feeds- a lot of stuff I barely know anything about but am having fun getting to know. Now my favorite blogger, Amy Alkon, comes to me instead of me having to search her out (thank you RSS feeds). I have gotten this far in life without instant chats until Rachel broke me in on it- yeah! All of this did not come without a price though. From my research on the web, it might have been the Skype- or maybe the fact that I tried to download a Mozilla application into an IE navigator- whatever it was, my computer started freaking out- of course... right when I am about to plunge full steam into my new hands-on technology course, my computer would die. That is right up there with "my dog ate my homework"- no one is going to believe it! Whenever I checked my groupwise e-mail and responded or closed a window the computer would close all internet windows and have errors... whenever I tried to close a cnn window, same thing. I couldn't even get to my new blog and all the attempts to follow or suscribe to other classmates' sites sent my computer reeling. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling- everything I could imagine- and finally decided to try Firefox instead of IE. It has taken a lot of adjusting on my part. I miss having my igoogle pop up immediately and I miss all my bookmarks. I know, I know- I have my new delicious bookmarks- but I cleaned those up as I am sharing them with my cohorts at school. All the advice columns and recipes are gone!!! boo hooooooo. At least my computer seems to be working like a charm and I am enjoying firefox for the most part. change...is...good...grrrrr- Venting is even better.