Love, Money and 1 gigabyte of free email space
Published by Yazad Jal May 24th, 2004 in Web World, LibertarianA good friend of mine has a favourite saying: “There are three ways of getting anything you want. Love, money or force. Libertarians don’t believe in force. So you’ve got to be content with either love or money”
Want Gmail?
GmailSwap shows you how via love (and maybe some money). If it’s only cold cash you wanna part with, here’s how (via Marginal Revolution).
(GmailSwap link courtesy: Kiruba Shankar)
BTW - Love is generally false, insincere, doesnt mean anything, and more often than not, is feined. Whats more, Love only lands you in trouble.
(If you arent already)
Lets talk money man.
Money = Happiness :)
Love is feigned, Ravages? (spelling nazi strikes again!)
Surely that’s a gross generalisation. Please tell me that was a tongue-in-cheek remark.
“Money can’t buy you everything, but I like the 98% of the things that it can buy. Gimme money!”
– MadMan, circa 1997
Yes, but how much money?
When i was setting up my gmail account via blogger, i was tempted to get a generic sounding account. However, $60 or so isn’t too much money to trade for a 1GB mail account. Instead, i managed to get a gmail account closely matching my name, without any special characters or numbers in it.
I’m happy with my decision! Yazad, you’re lucky to have an uncommon name! Getting good email IDs should be a breeze for you!
On a side note, gmail has a few problems currently and i hope that they get ironed out before the official release. The most frequent problem is excessive load time. Over a reasonably fast (~200kbps), it still takes about 10-20 seconds to load. Sometimes, the javascript fails to load at all and all i see is a blank browser page. (Gmail entirely uses javascript to render the pages). This has been a sore disappointment as google has become synonymous with blindingly fast speeds. The saving grace is that once gmail loads completely, it’s amazingly fast.
Yes, like asli says its slow to load, but once its on, its nice. i like the layout of mails as a conversation. Easy to access. Do you want mine for $240?
OT: Yazad, i noticed that you’ve put some text at the bottom of the comments popup that all comments would be your copyright. Is that valid or upholdable? AFAIK, any original work/text is automatically the copyright of the creator. One doesn’t even need to put a copyright message or anything.
Spymac ( www.spymac.com )
Rediff ( www.rediff.com )
Aventuremail ( www.aventuremail.com )
all offer 1 gb of email space for FREE and you don’t have to wait.
Aventuremail offers 2 gb of free email space except that they have stopped accepting applications.