The lovely Sasha sent me a gmail invite ... :cool:
I'm in agreement on it being a great backup email account (and handy to use for online forms!). Lots of space - woohoo! The names it proposes are kinda interesting though :) It suggested my full name (which I didn't want), lacyster, lacytster, lacster ... the "ster" thing seems to be their preferred addendum to names. I settled with lacymarie[at]gmail.com.
This is a pretty interesting article about why gmail matters.

That so isn't fair!! By the time I'm able to get an account all the good names will be gone! :weep:
Mines is at elfdrawer@gmail.com I just wanted richie@gmail.com!:banghead: :arg: