Gmail and SSL

This was news to me, when I heard about it, but it's probably documented someplace (sorry if you already knew).

Anyway, if you use Gmail you can get the web based interface with SSL encryption. Just use https://mail.google.com instead of the usual http://.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, SSL encrypts data between your computer and the server. This helps to keep people out of your account, but it doesn't make your emails any more private, since email is sent as plain text (unless, you use PGP or something similar). Still, it can't hurt to secure one more part of the process (unless you have a very, very slow CPU).