Computer Woes

My laptop died.

A couple of days ago a repository of memories, messages, knowledge, and creative efforts, working just fine; now, a silent, dark, lifeless THING that won't turn on. I cannot begin to express my anxiety and grief.

To add insult to injury, let me quote what a few fellow-bloggers have said about the "New Sitemeter," which is unreadable, unusable, inaccessible, and basically useless:

"the new sitemeter rolled out today and my first impression is: i hate it."

"The new Sitemeter is much much worse."

"New Sitemeter is much less usable than the old one."

"I hate the New Sitemeter...Just another complicated, obfuscated, hard to use system."

"The old Site Meter was simple and elegant. The new Site Meter is clumsy and awkward."

"A total debacle. Take something simple to use and render it incomprehensible."

"I hate hate hate hate the new Sitemeter."

and, in my opinion the most accurate assessment of all,

"The new Sitemeter is a STINKING PILE OF CRAP."

I agree with all the above, with Stephen Green's Open Letter to the "shameless sodding shiftless saps" at SiteMeter, and with everyone on the Google Blogs search results for "the New Sitemeter." Everyone hates it. Everyone's jumping ship. The question is, what is everyone thinking of using now? Statcounter?

I am bummed. I am on-call. It's been rainy. My computer doesn't love me any more. Waaaaaaaah.

Where's that piece of chocolate I saw just a moment ago...

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Update, c. 8 p.m. on 9/24/08 - I guess the SiteMeter people got wind of how everybody feels about the "new" version and are retreating. Too bad a lot of users are by now completely disgruntled. I'm even annoyed enough to resent the fact that they don't seem to know or care that "customer's" is not the plural form of "customer." What can I say - my grammar antenna gets a little hypersensitive when I'm irritated. Character flaw.