Housecleaning: April 2008 Archives

This year for April Fool's Google announced their "Custom Time" feature for Gmail that lets users to send their emails ... before they sent them.

In other words, Gmailers can roll back the timestamp so it looks like their email was sent on time. They are, however, only limited to 10 of these a year, lest "people to lose faith in the accuracy of time, thus rendering the feature useless."

Of course, this announcement was just an April Fool's joke -- or was it?

I'm writing this post for the benefit of anyone trying to reach me. I'm not sure where the breakdown has been occurring, but lately I've not been getting some of the email sent to me. Or if I do get it, it's three days after it was sent. Even the US Postal Service can beat that kind of speed.