Googletopia

So we are now officially in Oregon. After the move, one of the transitions has been that of email addresses. My primary work email at school is changing, and even my personal email through our internet service with sbcglobal will go as well. So that means I'm left with trying to find something standard in the mean-time. I've used Yahoo in the past, but they don't provide POP service. Since I'm all about checking my email on the go from my Treo, I've got to have that feature. Low and behold, Google's free mail service with Gmail offers free POP access. So in making the transition, I started to realize that I'm becoming slowly indoctrinated into the googlesphere. My blogs are through google (Blogger), Thusly, I use Google's picture service (Picasa), and we've already talked about Google Reader in a previous blog. I'll eventually probably just embrace it and make the transition from bloglines. Even as I type this blog, my Internet Explorer shutdown... have no fear. Blogger saves your drafts automatically. While something feels strange about becoming so dependent on one engine, it is eerily simple and streamlined. I think I'm going to just consider myself a google convert.