In the comments to the previous post there is some discussion of tracking by google. Thoughts of which tend to make me feel extremely paranoid.

Then I remembered this post from Ars Technica the other day.

Google already knows you're a 24-year old woman who loves wombats

And I checked to see what google thinks of me...

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Over the weekend I upgraded my Mac from the Snow Leopard OS to Lion.  Then upgraded Mobile Me to iCloud. 

The only reason I did this is because Mobile Me is going away in June.  I didn't want to make the move until the initial uproar had died down, but didn't want to wait until the stragglers were doing a last minute switch.  I figured the middle of January would be a good time.

Luckily Don McAllister of Screencasts Online made a couple of tutorials to make things smoother for the rest of us.  I made 3 backups of my system, downloaded the Lion app from the App store. Made a copy of that and saved it to a separate drive, then installed. 

It all went so well I've been rather dazed.  Not only that, but my machine is behaving much better under Lion.  I think all the applications, with the "Lion ready" updates, didn't work so well in Snow Leopard anymore.

Of course the downside was the upgrade to iCloud.  It sucked.  Apple tells you to sign in with your Appleid.  This is okay if you are new to Apple and have no Mobile Me stuff.

If you have Mobile Me already DO NOT DO IT!  DO NOT!!!  Sign in using your Mobile Me account - trust me you will be very glad you did!

That was my big mistake.  My appleid and my mobile-meid were two different things.  I had to sit through about 3 hours of chat with an Apple Mobile-Me person to get it straight.  They knew what they were doing, but OMG it all takes forever on chat!  I got the 2 id's combined and it's all working finally! 

I have yet to see if Lion will continue to play nice... iCloud too for that matter.  I had no documents on Mobile Me so I think that works greatly in my favor. Many people had issues with disappearing documents. 

So I've now gone through the painful process. It's nearly as bad as when a computer dies and you have to get a new one.  It's why I wait as long as I think I can before doing anything. 

Let's hope that's it for a while. Whew!

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