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So, have I completed the dream by running remote applications and data like a proper thin-client? Only up to a point. I don't use Google Documents to write with, but I do use Google Mail, taking advantage of its ability to merge several mail accounts: all my Cix and BT mail now redirects through Gmail, whose interface I've come to really enjoy using. I do also exploit the huge amount of free space Google gives you to store remote backups of my book in progress, but I still write in a local copy of Office 2007, and still back up locally too, onto a LaCie USB hard drive and sundry USB keys. I'm neither brave enough nor daft enough to trust my whole life to Google just yet...