i don't understand technology. i just don't. none of it makes sense to me.

with that said and well established amongst my readers, i get an email yesterday from my yahoo service saying that i won't be getting any more emails from anyone until i empty out some of my old emails, that i thought i could store, because i'm out of storage space. whatever storage space means anyway.... so, i'm supposed to delete or pay money for a bigger storage unit.

so late last night i spend an hour or so deleting tons and tons of hopefully useless emails that i think i may not ever need again. deleting, deleting, deleting for fear that there's some unknown email out there that i'm not receiving.

and then today, this morning in fact, i get an email from yahoo saying that they've happily increased my storage unit capacities and that i'm one lucky guy. and then i read this article in the paper today: "Yahoo expanding e-mail storage; Increase regarded as effort to defend against Google"

i don't even understand that or anything, other than i understand that my old email that i deleted is gone forever and i'll never get it back....

(unless of course someone takes me to court and wants to see all of my old email ramblings because, as technology/privacy people are always telling us all the time, our email is never deleted and is stored somewhere and can be used against us in a court of law... p.s. it's now even true of rants we say via text messages on our cell phone. when will technology learn to help us rather than harm us?)