Blue Eyes Designs

I now have brand spanking new (and apparently much coveted) Gmail account. I’ve
been poking at it for a while now and I really like the user interface. It’s the
only webmail client that I actually like, although that doesn’t mean that
I would’t switch to a local client the minute they release one.

Thinking of correspondences in terms of coversations is initially quite a shift
in thinking, but it’s an idea that makes much more sense then “sent” and
“recieved” – it’s a super-threading sort of thing to which I’d not been exposed
before. The “labels” idea is externally not very different from named folders,
but labels allow you to apply more than one description to a conversation and
classify entire conversations at once. How cool is that?

One issue on which I’m still undecided is that of the advertisements. To be
completely honest, I haven’t really noticed them all that much, and when I have,
I haven’t found them all that relevant at all to the contents of the email.
Strange, coming from Google and all. As they take up screen realestate that’s
usually blank in webmail clients away, I don’t care much. At thi spoint I still
trust Google not to obscond with any important emailed info (i.e paypal etc) so
I’m not gonna complain.

Anyway, enough yammering about gmail. The address:

drlynn@gmail.com

Bet you saw that one coming…