A few quick updates: The West Wing Season 4 will be out on DVD April 5. It's already available at Amazon among other places for preorder. (It's amazing how much stuff you can trim off an Amazon URL and still get to the same page. For example, this was the original WW link I got after a search for 'west wing')
Gmail started allowing forwarding and POP access a while ago. It looks like it has to be done over SSL, but any reasonable email client will be able to handle that. With it's monster disk quota and superior interface, it's hard to imagine using any other webmail services unless you are sticking with an old address. I've thought about having all my future mail forwarded to gmail, so I have a web accessible copy, and I can still check it with POP using Eudora and save a local copy. With 1 GB of space it'll be a long time before I have to cull through the crap on the site, except for attachments.
Also if you need a gmail invite, let me (or anyone else you know with gmail) know. They gave everyone 50 invites a while ago, so now there's plenty of supply to meet the original demand for gmail accounts.
Posted by ramk at March 16, 2005 01:36 PMhahahahahaha thanks for the amazon uri trimming tip. those bastards! what the hell is that other crap? session information?
Posted by: Dan at March 16, 2005 05:41 PMi've been forwarding all my email to gmail for several months now. really convenient to keep a copy there. plus sometimes i can't get to my other mail from certain places (like the mer) but i can still get to gmail. and it's so fast.
Posted by: sunny at March 28, 2005 03:37 PMi forgot to mention this, you can use gmail as a personal file server as well. haven't messed with it yet but looks useful:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000640033887/