I love newspapers and, about three years ago, started having "real" newspapers delivered to the home, the NYTimes and Wall Street Journal. The real difference is finding stories I 
never would have seen online. Saturday newspapers are my favorite. The Wall Street Journal has put together a terrific Saturday edition that I look forward to all week long and the Saturday Times has been a favorite for more than twenty years. There are always very interesting bits in it.
Be that as it may, the NYTimes and WSJ both have page one stories on Google this morning. The NYTimes has a Google lifestyle story about their commuter buses (complete with the most amazingly boring picture -- "Look! Californians on a bus!). And the WSJ has a story about Google winning a toehold in the realm of television commercials. --Someone, probably several people, deserve a nice mimosa this morning. Maybe two.
Synchronized to this is a move I made this week to further plight my troth with Google. Because my business is very mobile, and because there are so many different computers in my life, I have been running a copy of Thunderbird off a USB drive, part of the
excellent portable apps package (highly recommended). But I've come to tire of the performance of Thunderbird-on-a-stick and still being tethered to something instead of working in the cloud. Then, I found that I could make the Java gMail app run on my Treo and I vastly prefer that email program to even the souped-up email program I've been running for a couple of years now. Then, I noticed that gMail now offers to pop my mail from all my different accounts, five that are spread over my thirty years of email history and this is necessary for email tidiness. And, finally, I found a greasemonkey script that strips out the ads from gMail when I'm running Firefox.
So, I imported a few thousand addressed into gMail and started to enjoy. It's completed synched to my telephone and I can get to it from most any computer any time I want and this is Very Good. And, it performs much faster than Thunderbird-on-a-stick even over USB 2.0. I'm quite pleased. --Not as pleased as having placed two front page stories in one day, but quite pleased.
