oh it's gonna be just Grand

And the slow death of long distance calling charges begins... do you hear the call of change?
GrandCentral

BEFORE YOU TRY WARNING: once you pick a number, you can't change your mind and start over and get a new number-- yet? that's why you won't see my # on my blog yet. Plus eventually, there'll be a WebCall button on this page that calls you first, once you pick up, then calls me. So you may wanna think it over for a week/month/year, plus they're in beta (sigh jeez, "testing") and haven't finished making the service yet, so waiting may get ya more options. I know this because I got a number ... in the same area code I'm in. Duh. Stupid brain injury. Plus, at this point, it's only possible to pick your area code, but long distance charges are set by area code PLUS phone number prefix, so they may get around to that problem, until then, choose carefully.

It's cool stuff though...
1) if someone leaves you a voice-mail, you can access it later from ANY computer, and you can forward funny ones VIA EMAIL
2) you can route calls from certain people to certain phones (I suggested adding certain times of day 2 certain phones along with)
3) you will no longer have voice-mail at home, at work, on your cell, all in one place
For a better list of cool features, GrandCentral Features

They're in testing, so please speak up about any useful feedback. Cheers from Google Land!