In the past week, I have:

• Moved to an older Nokia mobile phone (after killing my old phone) and have had to learn a new user interface and feature set
• Moved off dtmail to Mozilla mail
• Moved to EdgeMail
• Decided to keep my mail folders...   elsewhere.   Not in my home directory.
• Participated in a global ChatRoom

Of all of these, the move to Mozilla mail has been the most challenging by far.

I suddenly understand why I have been getting tons of emails with nothing but HTML attachments.   Double click, bring up a browser, yet again!   I hated those kinds of emails!

Now, I also can see why so many emails I used to get with dtmail with "inline comments" were hard to read.   In Mozilla mail, the inline comments are simply easier to identify.   Colors can be used.   Font styles and sizes can be played with.   Great if you use a browser, but those of us still on old text mailers work extra hard to try to sift through those emails.

In Mozilla email, images don't have to be opened separately via imagetools.   And Address Books (versus a .mailrc file) actually look pretty easy to use...   so far.

But the best part....   Moving to the Edge.   I can now read emails at the dinner table, when visiting friends and family, at Internet cafes, in the car, on my mobile....   This is, I am told, The Future.   Modern Lifestyles.   Progress.   Oh joy.

So.   New mobile phone, new email, chatting on the web.   What next?

For a "Late Adopter", this has been a brain wracking week.   But, I'm still alive.