GMail

Hmmm… I got a Gmail account tonight. It wasn’t that hard to get, I saw where people were posting invites, put in my request, and got one. Guess that makes me a geek.
I don’t know why I need one, except that it seems like everyone has one now. OK, everyone doesn’t have one, ‘cause GMail is still in Beta, but it wasn’t that hard to get an invite. In fact, I got 2 invites, and gave the 2nd one away. There are some people doing some crazy things to get these invites, and some people are even buying them from EBay. I don’t look for them to be invitation-only for much longer. But at least I got a decent name.
I wanted “Bri-man” @gmail.com, but they don’t allow hyphens. So, I could have done “Bri.man” @gmail.com, but that just wouldn’t be consistent, and neither would “Briman”, which I think was also available. So, I went ahead and got “BCunningham2”, because it matches another email address that I use. So, if ya wanna drop me a line, you can also send a message to me at “BCunningham2” @ gmail.com (obviously, lose the quotation marks and fix the spacing).
So, what’s so good about GMail? #1 a whopping 1 GB of storage… yes, that’s 1000 MB. A nice summary of some of the features is here.