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photo credit: Jason Cartwright

Thanks to Alexia I’ve found this “Google Mail Goggles!” from Google Labs!

When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?

It only works late nights and weekends (by default - but you can adjust it!) and you’ll have solve some maths puzzles before you can send your mail - just don’t be too good at arithmetic when you’re drunk!!!

Personally I think this should be a standard feature on all mail clients - particularly for some of the emails I get!!!

I went to post a comment on a website today, it was a Blogger one (I always dread this - it’s just not as easy as commenting on a WordPress blog is it?). This particular user had chose to allow comments from:

• Registered Google Accounts
• OpenID users

I usually just select the anonymous option and fill in the form, like I would a WordPress form - that was a non-starter.

I don’t want a WordPress hosted WordPress blog, so I need to do something else… I want my own OpenID!

Then I found eric’s post on Using your own WordPress URL as an OpenID!

A quick download and activation of the OpenID Delegate WordPress Plugin, an account created with myOpenID and we’re away:

• Into the WordPress settings page to enable OpenID Delegation.
• Fill in myOpenID information…..

Wahey, all the way back the original blog and post my comment using my new “myOpenID persona”!!!

We saw the spires too (photo’s at some point when I can get them sorted)! And the huge bookshop (thanks Sinead!) But the coffee shop was what made me laugh!!!

Having strolled around for several hours it was time to chill with a large receptacle of caffeine for half an hour, a coffee shop in a bookshop seemed to the sensible place so I hunted down a table whilst Emma ordered coffee…. I spent much of the next half an hour trying not to laugh helplessly and unable to tell Emma why!

Allow me to set the scene:

• MacBook Man
  The gent to my immediate right was pondering whilst typing onto his MacBook, his reading matter interested me somewhat - not exactly light coffee shop reading: “The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich”
• French Teapot Man
  Sat alone with his teapot, staring out of the window.
• Student Giggling Guy
  With his tall hot chocolate and his nose buried in a book.
• Highlighter Girl
  Frantically scribbling notes on a pad (this isn’t a library you know!!), and highlighting in relevant colours!
• Studious Girl
  She arrived a little later and sat behind me.

So, being the techie I am I snoop a bit at what MacBook Man is doing every so often, Word documents never interest me so I pretty much ignore him until he starts fiddling with iTunes - if he kicks that thing off  in here - he’s going to get some damned funny looks! The he starts glaring into space, this is well and good - he’s probably the creative type….. Until I realise he’s not actually glaring into space, he’s looking down Highlighter Girl’s top every time she changes colour of pens!! It’s all I can do not to spit out my coffee in laughter.

Before I know it Studious Girl has appeared, with more books than really she can physically carry (I’m sure she hasn’t paid for them yet and is just getting a free read - is that right in these sort of places!?!?). This causes a problem for MacBook Man - he has Highlighter Girl on his right, and Studious Girl behind me on his left - it’s like watching a game of tennis as he swivels back and forth - he’ll be getting dizzy soon.

The staff eventually inform Studious Girl that she really must order something if she wants to sit there (and not spill it on the books that she hasn’t paid for!!!).

Whilst this is all going on, behind MacBook man sits French Teapot Man, who whilst constantly answering his phone - can’t pour from his teapot! He keeps spilling it everywhere…..On his second (or possibly third) spillage, Student Giggling Guy lets out a giggle, Teapot Man glares (and nearly spills more tea!), so does MacBook Man (and nearly falls off his chair dizzy with all this swivelling) - thankfully he’s not laughing at either of them - just his book - for a moment I thought I was going to witness coffee shop rage!

MacBook man is clearly on the pull, but I don’t think this is the time or the place - nor is it the time or place to stay for longer in case I get involved in this little charade in some way. Having finished our drinks we put our coats on……..

And I have sneaky look at MacBook Man’s Word document…………………

“How to write a surrealist comedy whilst in Auschwitz”

Hmmmm…….. Comments?

photo credit: Teo

Amazing what you can do with a voice-over and bit of a warped sense of humour! (Via Lottie)

This picture brightened my morning….

Memories from my time with the Air Cadets spring to mind! The rule being you stay wrong until someone corrects you, you don’t go correcting it yourself!

Apparently all commentors fit into categories (via Alexia), which are you?

Also if you lurk here and read but don’t comment - what would make you comment (and which category would you belong in!?!?).

Do you find you fight your way through your RSS feed reader, frantically clicking “Mark as Unread” (like I’m going to find time to come back to them?), “Star this” (Hmmm I might find time to post about this it seems quite interesting) and “Mark all as Read” (that writer really is writing a pile of tosh these days maybe I should unsubscribe?).

From your 158 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 2,150 items, starred 165 items, shared 0 items and emailed 0 items.

ARRRGGHH…. See, that’s another bunch of things starred to add to the 2,000 other items (and the 755 I haven’t read yet) - and you know what…… It will only get worse tomorrow!

This appears to be a somewhat ongoing saga as well, I first was concerned about this nearly a year ago with only 39 Feeds…. I now have 158!!!!!

Watch out for lots, and lots of Starred Up linking coming your way really soon!

Note: The song has nothing to do with anything other than the title of this post!