I find it unimaginable that in this day and age, when a meeting is called in a conference room of a large technology company, there are still grown men and women in business suits crawling around on the floor under tables plugging in network cables and laptop power supplies. Hasn’t this problem been solved many times over?

I read recently that Google’s Gmail service will be doubling the capcity of its users mailboxes to 2 gigabytes. I’m not sure what the point is, other than pure marketing. As someone who has saved every email received since 1995*, my personal sum comes to 345 megabytes. I’m sure that few users have reached the 1 GB capacity, so doubling it must be a pretty cheap move..

*Not including spam or mailing list email, or email with large attachments