I noticed that my gmail account has been upgraded to the “gmail 2.0″ today, which is cool — we have some new features, such as an improved contacts function, the ability to filter emails based on a single email (not sure if this means by author and content — I’m thinking ‘probably’), and a little label at the top which tells me if something is loading (because Lord knows I need a label to tell me that); also, its subjectively faster, which is always nice.

To be honest, the one thing that I was hoping would appear still has not, and that is the ability to sort a page of emails base on alphabetical name, or date.

This isn’t the first time I’ve talked about it, and its still mind-boggling how this feature is still noticeably absent.  I know that some folks are still fans of creating ever more filters, but for my money, there’s still no easier way to … well, sort through a ton of emails than by actually *sorting* them by name.

In other news, the free storage space for gmail is now almost 5 gigabytes, which is also nice.  I remember when I first got access and it was just over 1 gigabyte, and how game-changing that was for web based email services.  Man, I am feeling old … :)