So, Just to be geeky for a second… I’m not sure how many of you have discovered iGoogle… but basically it allows you to customise your Google homepage. On mine I just have a gmail plugin (so it shows me what’s in my inbox) and Google Reader. Google reader is quite a nice little RSS reader. What this means – is that you can subscribe to all your friends blogs and it will automagically tell you when they’re updated. Quite useful. You can click 
to test it out. It will ask you do you want to add it to Google Reader (good idea) or to the iGoogle homepage..
Well I like it anyway. So there.
As for the other thing… lets say every time you went to your mailbox (postal one!) you found that all of your mail had been slit open and read.. and then put back nicely… you’d be pretty annoyed I imagine? I would be anyway. Well that’s pretty much what happens with email – except that you can’t tell it’s been opened.
I rarely use encryption because
a) no one else uses it
b) it’s a pain to use.
Enter FireGPG a FireFox plugin for GPG – which basically makes it super simple to encrypt emails / attachments / anything else you like and send it around the place… brilliant. You will need to fist install WinPT and GPG if you’re on windows..
Once you’ve installed it all and generated your keys – then if you want to send me a test email you can download my public key
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