President-elect Obama is working hard to quit two habits: smoking and his BlackBerry.

I don’t have a BlackBerry or an iPhone, so I’m still relegated to getting my emails from an old-fashioned computer. But I’d sure like to get one. I love gadgets. I’m a little bit of a geek-girl; the technology expert in our house (although MiniMe is quickly gaining).

Once upon a time, many many years ago, Music Man was a computer programmer. That was before I met him, and since I met him, he’s become a Music Man and hasn’t looked at a computer for…years. Literally. I do his email and anything related to Google or etc., and he has all he can handle with his cell phone and…wheee!…an old HP PDA.

Nothing wrong with that. But I am wondering how long I can hold out before I have to have an iPhone or BlackBerry. Maybe for my birthday?

What about you? How are you wired nowadays? Or, should I say, wired-less? Are you addicted? Would you go back to a non-email-accessible phone?

(Side note: I know that many/most phones do allow some Internet and/or email access, but they’re just not easy like the ‘Berries and ‘Phones.)

Okay. Let me have it. What should I do? iPhone? Berry? What?

So I was over on Amazon today and right on the front page was a dangling carrot that I could not resist.

I’ve been thinking about buying a Kindle for a variety of reasons…partly because I think it’d be like an actor not having a DVD player. Or an iPod. Or whatever.

And so they’re giving a $100 rebate sort of thing if you apply for an Amazon Visa and buy a Kindle.

So, yeah, I did it. And I’m so excited!

Everyone I know who has one just loves their Kindle. I’ll report later when I get mine (some time next week?)

My only worry is that it might make it hard to read in the bathtub. Dare I?

So Lynn alerted me to the fact that with my recent upgrade on Wordpress, the email subscribers didn’t transfer.

So we’ve fixed that, and I have a much happier version of Wordpress running my blog now, and the anti-spam should also be “Gardella-ized” once again.

If you’re a frequent reader/lurker, you can subscribe to update notifications by adding your email address there…to the right. You’ll get an update whenever I publish a new blog. Saves you from having to check, dontchaknow.

So Slate has published an article today about the world's most popular (computer) game of all time. 

(I confess, when I saw the Yahoo! teaser, it said "world's most popular game of all time" and so I was dying to find out what it was. Chess? Dominoes? Monopoly? Trivial Pursuit? But, alas, they meant computer game. Which lessened my curiosity factor significantly. Yet, I did carry on and read some of the article.)

Anyway, according to Michael Smith, the most popular game of all time is: computer Solitaire. Big time waster, for sure. But it's on every office computer (heck, it's on every computer as far as I know), and so that makes sense.

But I'm not a Solitaire fan, on the computer or even, all that often, in person. I have, however, been known to get a bit addicted to certain computer games. I use them for, ah, relaxation or to clear my mind before I write. I never use them to procrastinate. Never never never.

My latest favorite is Rainforest Adventure (for the Mac; when I had a PC I did Jewel Quest. I like Rainforest Adventure better.) and WordSlinger.

WordSlinger is great because it's like a speed-Scrabble game you play alone. (I play the "speed" side.) You get a pile of words you have to drag over onto a Scrabble-like board and make them fit before the time runs out.

Speaking of which, my favorite thing about Facebook is the Scrabulous games that I have going on all the time. Actually, I misspoke above. I think Scrabulous on Facebook is my current fave, because I haven't played those other two for awhile.

So if you're on Facebook, find me and start a game of Scrabulous with me. I can never have too many, and the nice thing about Scrabulous is you can't waste hours playing it, since you have to wait for the next person to move.

So what are your favorite computer games? Any that you claim addiction (past or present) to? 

Email's been down all day. It bites.

There are days when I wish all I had was Gmail. This is one of them.

So how's your Monday?