Thursday, 23rd September 2004
Gmail-o-matic
As everyone must do by now, surely, I have a Gmail account. And since everyone else (everyone else who wants one, I should point out) already has one, I've only managed to get rid of a couple of my invites in the traditional invite-only-people-who-you-know-and-trust manner.
And they've been piling up. And they keep being topped up. And they were getting on my nerves until last week, when I discovered the isnoop.net gmail invite spooler where you email them with your Gmail invites. People who want one enter their email address, and receive one as soon as is possible.
It's wonderful — I've been giving out six invites a day, revelling in the moment when I reach a total of zero but still confident of the fact that there'll be another six when I look tomorrow. Of course, the problem with getting rid of them this way is that, when filling out a Gmail invite form, you must enter a first name and a last name. No getting round that, you have to enter something at least. Which has led to the current state of my inbox (click to enlarge):
Of course, my only problem now is that I have to think up six new names each day. There's always something, isn't there?
N.B. Suggestions gratefully accepted.

