In a followup to a previous post (on which I also commented) John Napiorkowski points out that it appears Google is now doing the right thing. I didn't find the reddit thread quite as informative as he seemed to, but the Google Groups discussion is a good, quick read.

In yet another entry in the Perl Is Not Serious files comes from Google. Apparently neither the CPAN module nor the Google developed module support the newest AdWords API. This defect is compounded by the end-of-lifeing of the old API on April 22nd.

Google's response to Perl developers? Go to hell.

Read a rant today about Yahoo! Mail. Since Yahoo is a former employer of mine I took a keener interest in the rant than I normally would (nota bene: I did not work on the e-mail product). If this rant is representative of a lot of folks experience then it would be pretty bad for Yahoo!.

It's interesting that I read this today since my current employer uses the GMail Enterprise service. I don't know what other people's experience with this service is, but apparently ours is not all that great (ironically we had a really good experience with the free version of GMail).

This is all to show why I don't use a web-based e-mail service. I maintain my own server running postfix, maildrop and a number of other programs. I use mutt to read my e-mail. In the end I've simply never been able to adapt to a GUI-based e-mail interface. There was a time where, at least once a year, I would attempt to use the Evolution mail program (think of it as Outlook for Linux machines) and it never took. I'd use it for a week and then go back to my old setup. Various attempts at using GMail or Yahoo! Mail have been just as fruitless.