G, your mail smells terrific.

After a week or so of using Google's new G-mail service, I'm liking it quite a bit. The mailbox capacity is huge, the search-and-store features are handy, and G-mail seems to lack the many problems and excessive spamminess I've lately experienced on Hotmail. You can't yet acquire a G-mail acocunt except by invitation from an existing account holder, and I've got one invitation left to hand out right now.

Borrowing a page from Sherry, I'm going to auction off that invitatation to one of you lucky readers. The terms of the contest are simple:

1. Give me one (or more) good reason(s) why I should bestow the invite upon your lucky head.

2. In the alternative, tell me something I don't know, but should.

3. The best reason (or bit of wisdom) wins.

4. Determinations of bestness (or most usefulness of conveyed information) will be made exclusively by me, in my sole and absolute discretion.

Gentle readers, start your engines . . . .