I know a Little Owl who is totally in trouble.
I should preface this story by saying that I wangled an invite from our friend Wang to Gmail yesterday! So I have been noodling around it for a day or so, and while it still needs a few tweaks in the address-book and conversation-threading areas, I'm very favorably impressed. You know, it gets to the point, Kate was saying to me, where you think, "Oh, it's just email. What in the world can they do to improve email?" and then someone comes along and DOES improve email (see the conversation-threading thing mentioned above) and you go WOW, why have we not been doing this all along??
And then that Owl I was talking about above decides that today, right when I was about to talk about Gmail and how very fond of it I already am, TODAY is apparently the right time to yell to the world about how dismissive she is of Gmail and the people who like their accounts because they only like it for its hipster exclusivity. For the record? I do like Gmail because of its storage space and its nifty features. And I would like them to open it up right now so that everybody I know can have an account.
Which maybe she would too if she ever used it, but as she admitted to me, angrily, this morning, it will not run on her ancient work computer. Oh-ho-ho, I think I see the faintest traces of bitterness shining through after all!
p.s. Oooh do you think maybe I am starting, like, a blog-fight? Haha!