smart computer use?

Ah yes, drunken emails. It’s too easy to just type out all kinds of crazy stuff and email it out to those who probably don’t care when you have had a few too many drinks and find yourself in front of a computer.

Many people have fallen victim to sending emails while drunk. The drunken email situation has prompted one Google engineer to develop an application called “Mail Goggles” that prevents users from sending drunken emails.

From TelecomTV:

Called ‘Mail Goggles’ the application is a product of the fecund, albeit booze-soaked mind of Google Gmail engineer Jon Perlow whose own weakness for late-night, liquor-fuelled missives turned-off one too many potential sweethearts.

Here’s how it works. Before a lost weekend, the user activates the Mail Goggles app which blocks emails from being sent during the specified hours unless the reveller can correctly answer 5 “basic” maths problems within a few seconds: if you are too pissed to pass the quiz ­ no email.

By default the app will kick in during prime post-party hours weekend nights to the wee hours.

Haha, yeah that’s good stuff.

Even if you are good at drunken math, this will probably be enough of a deterrent to at least make you think a little more before sending those drunken emails on a late Friday night.

I guess I’ve never really had a problem with sending drunken email, but if I did, I’d probably lump in this application along with my ticket to AA.