Gmail anticipointment

A friend finally hooked me up with a Gmail account. I guess the biggest reason I wanted an account was because it's not fun not being a part of the “in” crowd. So now that I've got one, well, not sure what I'm going to do with it.

My normal address is handy because I use IPSwitch's IMail, and it has a Web interface. I use Hotmail only because I've had it for many moons and it doubles as my Passport account. Now I have this Gmail account.

Now that I'm “in,” I will say that it's pretty cool. The UI is fairly simple, the ads don't bother me and the conversation-style display of e-mail is a pretty good idea. If all e-mail did this we wouldn't reply with the entire message history duplicated in every message.

But at the end of the day, it's still just e-mail. Such a ridiculously simple thing anymore. Now that spam is getting a little more under control (at least with the tools I use), it's actually a useful medium again!