Waiting for the World to Catch Up

At last. I have a new computer. It's wonderful. It does all sorts of fancy tricks that my geriatric laptop was unable to contemplate. That's the upside. The downside is that a week ago I was an acknowledged expert on all aspects of word processing and many other computer related activities. Today I am a novice once more. I am sure that Office 2007 is a huge leap forward in computing terms and once I am accustomed to it my fingers will fly over the keyboard as they used to but yesterday I had to summon the help page just to find out how to spellcheck a document. (No problem: press F7 like in Wordperfect from ten years ago.)

Another bonus is that I won't be wasting so much time playing games. No one has got round to creating a Vista patch for Scrabble Blast yet. Or Text Twist. Or Bejewelled.

I won't be wasting so much time chatting to people online either as my friends who haven't upgraded to Windows Live can no longer see that I am online. And I won't be sending my Word docs to colleagues as they won't be able to open them unless I remember to save them in compatibility mode. I think I know now how Alexander Graham Bell must have felt when he sat there waiting for his new phone to ring.