Why I use Google products so much

Basically because I currently give them my best chance of leaving a digital legacy.

If I host stuff myself, it all goes away (except what's in the Google cache) when I stop paying for it.

Keeping stuff around seems to be part of the Google way. How ephemeral that is remains to be seen. Alas, that means I'm using Google Notes instead of trying out Evernote.

What about vandalism?

Google Notebook & Atom

All of a sudden it dawned on me that Google Notebook is just (?) Ajax manipulation of an Atom store.

Images in Google Docs & Notebook

• In Google Docs, when you insert an image into a document, you can choose to have the image data actually included in the document.
• In Google Notebook, when you clip an image, it puts a pointer to the image in the notebook, not the image.
• If you export the notebook to the Google Doc, it will still be a pointer.

So, if you clip an image on localhost, you'll only be able to see the image if you're on that machine.