Well, as most of my readers are likely aware (both of you, even), I got a gmail account. I finally had to give up on hotmail because the quantities of spam were getting out of hand; and I was too lazy to retool my filters.

Anyways, this morning I had a brief discussion w/ my office mate that I found humorous, because he is against gmail, but not because it's another method by which google is achieving World Domination. (He agreed w/ me that Google is a benevolent dictator, and at least better than Microsoft.) His complaints with gmail are summed up here:

http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

Since I've never considered email to be a form of communication that offers anything in the way of privacy (unless encryption is used, and even then I have some doubts... which i won't go into detail about here) and i was surprised to learn we supposedly have ANY rights at all w/ regards to the gov't reading our email, none of these things particularly bothered me. As far as I'm concerned, the gigabyte of storage is a boon. I really really hate the way Lotus Notes (which i'm forced to use at work) deletes my email after a coupla months; i can't tell you how many times I've gone back to look for an email about an issue that resurfaced, only to find the email had "expired" and been automatically deleted. As far as email goes, i would really prefer to never have to delete any of it, ever.

I could say more on this but i have to get to work.