Time for major changes, such as dropping Google (including Gmail) and moving to WordPress. Yes, this blog is moving. I'm done here on Blogger. I can't morally and ethically be involved with a company that turns privacy and confidentiality into a commodity. For the record, I pulled back from Yahoo when they sold out human rights to the Chinese government, too. I'm at a momentary loss of what email provider to use, because it seems they each have various instances of sleeping with the government and outright fucking the same people (that's you, gentle reader) they supposedly serve.
Follow the link to a list of nine reasons to hate and despise Google, posted at Beer is Not Food (direct link is fine, but there are many NSFW images elsewhere - you have been warned), which she got from Google as Big Brother.