Well  it looks like I wrote a post and  forgot to take it out of draft.. yeah  I really am not my blog's only reader So settle into my own "wayback" machine as I take you back to the end of May 2007.  

For those not in the habit of wandering around Techmeme the  story de jour is yet another "offline web"  framework to extend the browser into the desktop and blur the lines between web/os .   Thank Google ? for their new "Gears" which   proves that everything  new is old again.   E.g  if you connected in the early days   to mail / news you'd  connect,  get the mail, disconnect , read it/ respond, connect again  and send the mail on  it's way.   I didn't buy that we'd have ubiquitous internet by now  , not for technical reasons , due to the truculent nature of the telcos and the promise of the little "free wifi" we have being an archipelago of walled islands which to those not on a company expense account make constant connectivity an expensive proposition.  

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/google_releases.html