<p>Oh great, it's April Fools Day. I might as well not bother, because a tech commentator's lot is not a happy lot on a day like today. We deal in the dreams of developers, the impossibilities of the internet, and play with the emotions of the engaged except today, where everyone just throws ideas at their PR teams and blogs like it's the pitch episode of Bravo's 'Start-Ups: Silicon Valley'.</p><p>It's slightly easier this year, with April Fools Day falling on Easter Monday, a traditional holiday here in the United Kingdom. There's slightly less appetite for tech news today, so I don't need to try and guess what is on the edge of possibility and being played for laughs, what is just plain silly, and try to decide on the edge cases.</p><p>I guess that many writers are remember the incredulity at the news, back on April 1st 2004, that Google was going to launch a free to use, web based, email service that would have 1 gigabyte of storage for every user at a time when Hotmail was offering a few megabytes. Going back to that original press release, it's a delightful bit of subversion:</p><p>Today, a handful of users will begin testing the preview version of Gmail. Unlike other free webmail services, Gmail is built on the idea that users should never have to file or delete a message, or struggle to find an email they've sent or received</p><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2013/04/01/why-im-logging-off-for-april-fools-day/">Keep reading...</a></p>