Google Does It Again

We've all done it. You wake up the morning after, look at your blackberry or cell phone, and get that sinking feeling as you look through your sent messages. Why you sent that message to your somewhat attractive co-worker who you've never had an actual conversation with at 1:30am eludes you. Well, no it doesn't, but now you have a problem on your hands.

Well, the fine people at Google have come up with a method for alleviating some of these morning-after communications issues. Mail Goggles is a new option in Gmail that you can set to be active during certain parts of the day, say... 10pm - 3am, and all day on Sundays during football season. During these times when the app is active, when you attempt to send an email a message will pop up prior to sending asking you to solve a few simple math problems, or at least simple while relatively sober. If you're particularly adept at being drunk, you can raise the difficulty in order to match your skill level.

I'm definately going to have to test this out on the Blackberry, assuming I ever get it back from Best Buy. This actually brings up a good point - this could cause an increase in blackberry rage incidents. If you're like me, your blackberry has a tendency to take a beating when things aren't going well late at night. Remember, you did this to yourself, its not the blackberry's fault.

It will also be interesting to see if you can simply go in and change the settings to deactivate during its 'on' times. While I may not be able to complete 14 x 4 - 31 while out late, I think I could definately change the settings tab.

(hat tip RockyMountain)