I got invited to get a Gmail account. I guess it's been such a geek cult phenomenon because 1) it's 1 gigabyte of email storage. That's insane. 2) it's in Beta stage and you can only get in by invite from a current gmail user. I suppose what's really appealing is that it's seen that Gmail is going to take off as THE free email service, kinda like hotmail was. As geeks who have been online back in the BBS and early AOL days, we picked out a handle that we identified with and liked. Mine was orpheus, or quicksilver. Whatever one's handle was, though, as the web grew, other people with the same handle start getting in the way... sooner or later, you'll never be able to pick out the name you really want. So if it can be seen that Gmail is going to take off, geeks with their beloved handle can have handle@gmail.com and forever have that cool, succinct, short name that no one else can have.

Me, I chose 'robertcantu'. I guess I'm growing past the need for kitchy names that may or may not identify me. Oh well.