Google Launches Custom Time. Now, You’ll Only be Late if You Choose to Be Late
April 1st, 2008 Oliver StarrCategories | Humor | Software
Google has just launched an amazing new service, Custom Time. The new application allows you to control when, as far back as the day Gmail launched (April 1, 2004) , you would like your sent email to arrive and appear chronologically in your recipients in box.
This application is great. Particularly, if for some reason you are Not Getting Things Done (on time) and thus need to resort to some artifice to convince people that you really are just as productive as ever and that their email reading skills are really to blame. Not only can you control the date and time at which an email will appear to have arrived, but you also have the option of making the message appear to have been marked read or unread as your preference (and degree of cruelty) dictate.
Of course it goes without saying that an application this powerful as well as devious should be used sparingly. Not only because using it too frequently might expose you to suspicion and the likelihood of discovery, but also because you could disrupt the space-time continuum, causing a temporal rift that results in you going back to a date and time before you were conceived, interfering with your own conception and causing you to cease to ex…











You knew this was an April fool’s joke, right?
Who can trust Google to launch a new, unheard of product on April Fools day! Ha!
“Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality (see Grandfather Paradox). ” Yeah right!
Tony B