Google Docs (Thing #21)

I tried GoogleDocs instead of Zoho because I keep hearing about it. It seems like it would be great for working on a project collaboratively--I like the ability to post comments on the documents. I also love, love, love the ability to revert to previous versions. That said, I don't think I would use it unless I wanted to work on something collaborative or needed the ability to access my document from anywhere--it seems to have limited options for fonts, formatting, etc.

(Small technical wonder: I uploaded this poem from my computer. Very easy. GoogleDocs preserved the font I orginally typed it in and I can make changes in that font, even though it's not available when you create a document. How do they do that?)

ATLANTIS—A LOST SONNET
Eavan Boland

How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder

that a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades,

not to mention vehicles and animals—had all

one fine day gone under?

I mean, I said to myself, the world was small then.

Surely a great city must have been missed?

I miss our old city —

white pepper, white pudding, you and I meeting

under fanlights and low skies to go home in it. Maybe

what really happened is

this: the old fable-makers searched hard for a word

to convey that what is gone is gone forever and

never found it. And so, in the best traditions of

where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name

and drowned it.