Oh baby! I've missed you so much! I missed your warm, alluring embrace! The way you glow so vibrantly and speak out to me in such dulcent tones! You were always there for me for two full years, until you got hurt, but you're all better now, and Friday morning you will finally return to me after a three week absence! I'll treat you tenderly, and make sure that you are just as sweet as before! Oh, Sony 50" Plasma TV my love! Please never leave me again!!

Google now has a chat history in Gmail (you can also select "off the record" to prevent your chats from showing up) and you will soon be able to chat and use Google Talk (I believe) directly from your Gmail page. Check out the screen shot.
Updated: Reviews from The Unofficial Google Weblog: Here and Here.

Some new info on Internet Browsers. Opera has put out their Opera 9.0 Preview. This is supposed to be a beta release but it seems pretty darn stable to me. I use Opera as my #2 browser, just behind Firefox. Opera is a damn nice browser and the new version offers widgets and BitTorrent and many other goodies. Also out there is something called SeaMonkey, a Mozilla (Firefox like) browser that bills itself an "all-in-one internet application suite". I'm not sure what the point of this browser is, but it looks and acts okay.