No More Drunk Emails
You have to love this. GoogleMail (or Gmail) now has a feature that is aimed at preventing you from drinking and mailing.
This feature - called Mail Goggles - is remarkably simple. You set up a time window (default is Friday and Saturday night between 10pm and 4am) at which you are most likely tempted to send out e-mails you might regret later.
Before the e-mail is sent out, you have to answer five maths questions correctly.
You can even set the level of difficulty for those questions, in case you happen to have a PhD in maths and consider yourself brilliant even when intoxicated.
Where were those features when we needed them most - 15 years ago, and applicable to all means of communications like phones, SMS etc?
I guess all you need now is a friend that prevents you from showing up drunk at you ex-wife's doorstep to embarrass yourself.
Although I don't want Google for this purpose.
Before the e-mail is sent out, you have to answer five maths questions correctly.
You can even set the level of difficulty for those questions, in case you happen to have a PhD in maths and consider yourself brilliant even when intoxicated.
Where were those features when we needed them most - 15 years ago, and applicable to all means of communications like phones, SMS etc?
I guess all you need now is a friend that prevents you from showing up drunk at you ex-wife's doorstep to embarrass yourself.
Although I don't want Google for this purpose.
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Billy No Box has worked in the city for six years, and currently works in Derivatives for a North American bank. He enjoys playing golf, reading books by Umberto Eco, singing "Copacabana" in the shower and at karaoke bars, and occasionally updating his blog about London and everything else.
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