Mozilla Thunderbird is my must-have piece of virtual kit. I have it set to start straight after my PC boots, and it's almost never off. In this lonesome limbo known as my current life, the T-Bird is my lifeline, my window to the outside world. Sometimes it's the only thing that reminds me that other people exist. It keeps me up-to-date with my favourite blog feeds, and I adore it so much that I even run my Gmail account through it. Ah, sweet, sweet T-Bird.

Apologies if I have offended any hardcore Gmail users with my flagrant abused of this most treasured system. *scurries away to hide*