Empty Dashboard…help?

So “Code is poetry”.

Just registered and logged in. My dashboard is empty, after telling me to “browse happy”. The last time I tried to “browse happy” with Firefox, my perfectly fine XP system started limping around and doing its impression of a whirring plastic rock. Went back to IE8. IE8 not good enough for WordPress?

How can I see something I can use on the dashboard? All I want to do is revise a typo in comment I posted on a blog. Thanks to any poet who might assist me.