The Forgottonia University Computer Committee should be FIRED

That's FIRED, FIRED, FIRED. Canned. Terminated. Tossed out on their butts without severance pay.

They've switched us to a web-based e-mail, with no choice about whether we want to use it or not, and it is absolutely the pits. It's supposed to be this suite thing, where you can schedule meetings and do votes and stuff, but guess what--you can already do that in Outlook, which they just paid a zillion bucks to update from 2003 to 2007, and Outlook coordinates with the rest of the Office suite, which definitely has advantages (and don't get me wrong, I am not a huge fan of Microsoft anything). Additionally, it's open-source software and it seems to be still in the beta stage; it's supposed to have all these wonderful features but you can't even change the font when you're creating a message, it doesn't even freaking tell you when a message has arrived. You go to a place called "Bugzilla" and vote on what features you'd like them to work on. It's extremely awkward to move around in, and on dialup it is worse than Yahoo mail; it's slower than molasses and has to refresh the screen for everything you do. Or try to do.

Being force-changed to Office 2007 was bad enough, but this is about a million zillion times worse. I am, at the moment, still using Outlook to send, but they've set it up so all my in-coming mail goes to that stupid Zimbra (that's what it's called. Have you ever heard anything so stupid?). The only thing I can figure out is they're trying to get people to cut back on their e-mail.

I hope they didn't spend more than about $27.50 for this stupid program.

Geez louise.

This just may push me over the edge. I've been thinking about having my landline disconnected, using my pay-as-you go cell phone for phone calls, and getting broadband for the computer. It would save me about $25 a month and I could use the software I want to use.