Les, I have to know what all the fuss is about, so I’ll happily take one!

Damn, were you sitting right next to the phone waiting for this call or what?? OK, it’s on the way.

Hey Les, I’ll take one if ya don’t mind.

Thanks.

Me? Pretty please

I am sitting on a couple that I want to donate to folks who have been deployed overseas.

I have given one out to someone who emailed me from a .mil domain, and so I have a few more to go.

Why am I doing it this way? With 1GB space, imagine the home videos, photos, sound clips and etc that could be sent to someone who is deployed.

If you know of anyone who has been shipped out, tell them to contact me at john dot hoke at gmail dot com or leave a post in the linked page above.

a snarky person asked me how will I know if they are bullshitting me or not? Well, if they are emailing me from a .mil domain I can assume they atleast are involved in the military, then the rest is the Honor System.

I would like one!

OK, I’m down to 1 invite left. None of you bozos sent me your real names so I had to make them up on the spot. Hopefully that doesn’t end up being a problem.

I take that back. Jeff sent me his real name so he’s not a bozo. He just sent it to my other email account so I didn’t see it at first.

Well, I can be at least a semi-bozo for not sending you my name the first go around anyway.

Thanks Les!

Hmmm… Semi-Bozo, isn’t that like a little pregnant j/k

Well I thought we were all Bozo’s on this bus
Thanks for the account, I couldn’t figure out how to e-mail you!! Its midnight where I am and about 90 right now. I took my children windsurfing and spent most of my time pulling people out of the big waves :-( And I ran into a mad jellyfish!!
I used to live in Canton Ohio by the way.
Have a great day hug your children, grab your wifes ass, make her scream. In a good way of course:-)

submit normal?? Never you SIB

hi, i am new visitor to ur site. i wud like 2 hav 1 plz. plz plz plz.

Same thing happened to my gmail account, Les. Bam, five invites after a longish dry spell.

I must admit that my first impulse upon seeing your comment, Gaurav, is to say, “NOT UNLESS YOU LEARN HOW TO TYPE PROPERLY!”

But I don’t feel like being that mean today so I’ll send it your way anyway even if your comment sets my teeth on edge.

And with that I’m back down to 0 invites left.

By the way, how does one do the icon/avatar thing again? I know you posted this a couple of weeks ago, but I can’t find the entry in my sleep-deprived state…

You have to sign up for an account at Gravatar.com and then upload the 80x80 graphic you want to use. When you sign up you must use whatever email address you commonly use to post comments on blogs with because the email address is what Gravatar uses to look up your icon. If you use a different email address on each blog (which it appears you might) then you’ll either have to sign up for multiple Gravatar accounts or you’ll have to change your email address at the various blogs to match whatever you signed up with.

Thanks, Les. I do indeed use distinct email addresses for each site I post on, but I may well consolidate them into my spanking new gmail account.

Not to be tooooo stupid but what the heck is GMail and why the hell would I want it?

I already have access to mega email services on any number of servers. What’s so special about GMail that one would want it?

And yes I’ll take one please thanks? Not sure why but with the furvor over it maybe I should want one too.

Damn peer pressure.

People only want it because it’s so damned hard to get.

And I’m all out of invites right now, but next time I’ll catch you.

Now, what to use a GMail account for?

Other than the obvious, offsite backups come to mind. Email encrypted backup files, notes, whatever, to your GMail account and archive them there.

Any other ideas?

pr0n

Ohhhhhhhhhhh.

It’s used for pron.

I’ll take two please.

Hi im from Australia and all my friends are like chargin $80.00 for a gmail so i couldnt afford it, if anyone is kind enough to send me an invite i would most appreciate it and help u in anyway that i can.help me, cuse in a few days ill probably give in and buy it for 80.00 so plz send as soon as u can to the following email:
Mayname: Dean Mathews

OK folks, we’re not taking reservations here. If I get any more invites I’ll put a note up, but don’t bother telling me you’d like one when I don’t have any to give out. I’m not keeping a list or anything.

Dean, for eighty bucks, you could register your own domain and get hosting for a year, easy.  Can gMail really be that big a deal? Just asking.