  Well, thanks to a generous person from my local area, I now have the GMail account I was looking for (sort of). Here's how it went. I odered something from EBay two weeks ago, and it finally arrived yesterday. So today I went to EBay to leave some feedback. After leaving the feedback, I browsed my local area in EBay just to see what was around, and noticed three invites to GMail being auctioned.
After checking the profiles for the users, I found out one of them was from the next town over (approx. 8KM away). I dropped him a quick note to basically say "Fuck the auction, give me your price and let's do this in person". The went to bed. To my surprise when I woke this morning, he had replied, and generously offered me a free invitation just because I was a local resident! I must say that this has probably been the nicest thing anyone has done for me in a long time. To make a long story short, I've "Got GMail!
", and am loving it. Even though I have my own account, if there is anyone out there that would like to send me a second invitation, please do so. If I get another invite, I'll use it to create an account for my 9 month old son, so in the future he can use this service and have an account that shows the resistered date as being during the beta period. If you are as nice as the guy that gave me my first invite was, be sure to send the invite to pimp[at]hardwaregeeks.com . That's all for now, back to playing with my cell phone. Later. 
