Why do people use ISP email addresses?  ISPs like Optimum Online, Comcast, Verizon, Netzero, Juno, and PeoplePC give you an email address when you sign up for their service.  Why do people use that?  You can pretty much guarantee that you won't stay with that ISP your entire life, so you'll eventually have to send out an email to all the people you know that says, "Hi, I got a new email address because I moved.  La la la."  Instead people should use free, web-based email like Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail.  (Actually, just Gmail.  Yahoo has big banner ads and Hotmail has always been low quality.)  This way, you won't have to change your email address when you move or change ISPs. 

I work for essentially the largest, most powerful company on earth.  Yet my email storage space amounts to a whopping 50 MB.  That's about as useful as Hotmail's 25 MB (with the possibility of 250 MB, or the possibility of death and dismemberment, whichever comes first).  You'd think that, y'know, since we're the most powerful and influential nation on earth, that maybe George W. could beat up some geeks and get a few more MBs for my nonsense emails.  Or you'd think that some of the idiots I work with would stop sending big huge emails that are full of pictures and junk. #technology