Summer is icummen into Chennai.

Gmail’s 1 gig free sounds good, and I hope the service is reliable. What’d really kick ass: a desktop app communicating over HTTP to my Gmail account (like Outlook Express communicates with Hotmail). Dredging through long conversations over a browser will not be fun, I assure you (anyone tried really long threads on Google Groups?).

[Update: I have since joined the Gmail beta program, and the innovative “conversation view” notwithstanding, I stand by my statement.]

Sun and Microsoft kiss and make up. McNealy’s barbs will be missed. While I don’t expect any letup in the competitive rhetoric, an officially supported RMI to System.Remoting bridge would be very nice to have.