As I’m sure I’ve mentioned to most people already, I now have a gmail account. People sending me mail shouldn’t worry too much, as I’m currently forwarding all of this domain’s mail to my gmail account.

First impressions are pretty good – the web interface is nice and quick with natty keyboard shortcuts, and the features do seem genuinely useful. You essentially have just two email folders – Inbox and All mail. You can also have ‘labels’, which are kind of like folders but not quite, as a single mail can have several different labels – so you can more or less organise things however you want – by people, topic, date, whatever. I think it’s handy, and I don’t get all that much email.

However, I do have one small gripe – it appears to be a bit broken at the moment. I haven’t received any mail since 2pm today, and I know I should have had at least 4. Hopefully it’s just a glitch and they’ll filter through once what I assume must be a forest of backup MXs sort themselves out.

Anyhoo, just like the logo says, it’s a beta, so I shouldn’t grumble too much

PS – as part of my ongoing house tidy, I am trying to find a good, loving home for my family of old monitors – one 14″, one 15″, and one 19″. Let’s have those offers coming in