not as geeky as i wanna be

so i decided enough’s enough, it’s time i finally installed the release version of NS7. you know, if you’re not using NS7 or Mozilla, you’re not seeing all the cool things that i do just for NS/Moz. the rounded corners. the favicons that match every skin. certain transparency effects. really, you’re missing out. anyway, i try once and, having forgotten whatever it is you’re supposed to do at the command line to launch the installer, that plan gets shelved a few days. finally, i look up the instructions, and oh, easy! i get it installed (after poking around endlessly trying to figure out where in the hell to put the thing) and launch the new email client and … it’s empty.

it’s empty. oh joy. (it’s where i keep emails with login info and passwords. i just now got all that back together after the last big computer switch. just now). (and take a minute to imagine just how many domains i deal with, and how annoying i would be telling my hosting company i mislaid all their emails … again and have to get this and that reset and …). suffice to say, i had that sinking feeling. in a big way.

fortunately, i still have the old mozilla beta, and it for some freakish reason points at the same place as the old NS beta. go figure.

and there are ways i could tell this email client to look there for email, but i’ve decided to leave it the way it is, mostly because there were probably 5000 emails in the various accounts (not an exaggeration) that needed to be gone through and figured out what to keep and what not to. so i’ll have those around just in case, but for now i have that fresh, new email smell. sometimes it takes an accident.

i’m going to keep it clean this time. really. i am.