Thanks to Marc Orchant and his highly informative Office Weblog, I’ve managed to score a Gmail email address. These have a geek cachet as gmail is currently invitation only – an interesting marketing ploy from Google. Gmail itself looks very nice. Exactly the sort of quality you would expect from Google. Hotmail and Yahoo don’t stand a chance, except from user inertia – which will be considerable.

I’m not sure what I am going to use it for as I am pretty happy with Mailblocks. At least I have managed to reserve my name in Gmail (iain@gmail.com is impossible as Gmail usernames have to be six characters minimum).