omgomgomg

I can has new computer.

I can has /keyboard I can put both hands on at the same time omg/. Touch typing ftw! I don't have to poke with sticks!!!

...there's still a lot of setting up that has to be done. Also I have to figure out how to juggle the keyboard and the mouse. (I think it will be okay for gaming, since I can shift the keyboard over to my left hand and use the mouse on the right side or something; but for active use, it's kind of hard to have the right half of the keyboard occupy the same space as the mouse.)

omg omg omg omg omg *dies of squee*

ETA: Did my 750words thing and, okay, it was mostly new-computer squee babble ('omg' was the most used word, according to the word cloud), which tends to come out faster than when I don't have squee spilling out of me, but you guys, you guysssss, my word speed DOUBLED. It took me 11 minutes to get to 750, when my average so far has been 20. And I had ~70wpm instead of the usual 30-40. Being able to touch type again is AMAZING omg you guys have noooo idea.

(Well, unless you do. But still. Typing with both hands, instead of one hand and a stick? WAY BETTER.)

(omg omg omg.)

(*dolphin squeaky noises*)

Very Important Questions

Given a Windows machine, any suggestions for:

* mail program (I've been using Thunderbird, and will probably default to that unless anyone has any good alternatives)

* IRC program (been using mIRC, hate the nagging though)

* software to sync a fairly old Palm with

* anything else that I might have forgotten

?