James Drogan

Prompted by the growing functional richness and reliability of the cloud and the iPhone in my pocket, I've decided to take my first baby steps into the cloud as a source of function, not just information.

Depending upon my schedule I would find that I might go as long as three days without ever looking at my personal e-mail client, Outlook.  I reckoned that anyone would always call if there was a real need to get to me in short order.

Many of the things that I valued Outlook for can now be done in the cloud and my ability to look into the cloud from anywhere and at any time now presents a value proposition that looks as if it may be stronger than the client-based approach I have long used.

So, I'm trying an experiment using Gmail (jim.drogan@gmail.com).  I've set it up so that Gmail fetches the e-mail from my other ISP and I will be using Gmail to read and respond for say, a month.  I need to also experiment with a task list and calendar in the cloud.  Google looks like a good bet for these functions.