Gmail as a blogging tool?

Here's something weird :-)
Screenshot: http://ion.gluch.org.mx/files/Hacks/gallina/images/gallina-0.1.png
(Tool called Gallina does just that-
http://ion.gluch.org.mx/files/Hacks/gallina/)

Article: Programmer turns Gmail into blogging tool
(http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39165718,00.htm)
'uilder: Gallina turns Gmail into a blogging tool - but has the writer
missed a trick?

A Mexican programmer has figured out how to turn Google's Gmail
service into a blog. Jonathan Hernandez posted a demo of his software,
called Gallina, together with the open-source code, on his employer's
Web site.

Gallina uses Gmail messages as blog entries, and the email service's
message star to signify the publish status. Email replies to
conversations are posted as comments to an entry. Because Gmail
provides 1GB of email storage space for free, Hernandez' software
makes that space available for the blog.

On his site, Hernandez said the software uses XML and XSLT -- a
language to specify how to transform an XML document of one type to
another document type. Anyone wanting to take advantage of Gallina
would need to install the application on a server, which would then
use Gmail to store the posts.

However, it may not please Google: the company's terms and conditions
explicitly disallow screen-scraping technology of the type used by
Gallina.

Hernandez's work was highlighted on geek site Slashdot.org where one
commentator noted that Google's existing free blogging service,
Blogger.com, already allows users to post entries using email. Blogger
also supports the Atom application programming interface for
developers, allowing them to build their own blogging applications. '