No More Drunk Emailing!

How many of you have been victims of drunk dialing, or worse, been a drunk dialer? Google Labs has come up with a new feature just for you - Mail Googles.

What a great idea. When the feature is enabled, you must first perform a few simple math problems to verify that you are in the right state of mind. If you can complete the math problems within the specified time frame, you are free to send email.

By default, this feature is only active late night on the weekends. What a great tool!

Wanna Be James Bond 007

As a former spy, I can tell you that it is not all that it is cracked up to be. While James Bond makes the job look sexy, most days are spent driving dignitaries around acting as their bodyguards. Sure, infiltrating organizations and governments to uncover secret information is a large part of the job. However, most of the job duties are not as exciting as James Bond makes it look.

Another downside of being a spy is the job is 100% travel. As you might well imagine, attrition in the intelligence community is rather high. So, what is the best way to recruit new talent? MI6, the British Secret Service, is using Facebook to recruit the next generation of spies. Previously, MI6 recruited primarily from both British military and Universities.

The new MI6 slogan is: "Time for a career change? MI6 can use your skills. Join us as an operational officer collecting and analyzing global intelligence to protect the U.K."

Sure beats a desk job!

Winnie is Two Months Old

Little Winnie is two months old today. In this photo he just woke up. I wouldn't be happy either. :-) He is really much redder than this photo shows.

He gets to come home in 23 days.

Microsoft's New Zune Phone

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is at it again. Today he told the UK media, at the Professional Developers Conference, that Google's Android phone would have no impact on Windows Mobile 7. He went on to say that Microsoft's new Zune on Windows Mobile phone will be a huge success.

Hey Steve, how is that Zune market share thing going anyway?

Blue Cloud of Death

You have to love this. Steve Ballmer announced today that Microsoft is going to release a new OS called "Windows Cloud." He further went on to say that this new product would allow Microsoft to unseat Google as the king of cloud computing.

Can anyone say 'Blue Cloud of Death?"

James Bond Camera on eBay

This is certainly stranger than fiction. An MI6 operative, a James Bond in real life, sold a Nikon Coolpix 4300 on eBay recently for $30. The problem is that he forgot to erase the top secret documents that were on the camera. This included details of the encryption system used by operatives.

Fortunately, the person that bought the camera found the photos and contacted the Foreign Office in the UK. No one knows how the camera found its way to eBay. That is their story and they are sticking to it.

Boo Boo is Two Months Old

In three and a half short weeks Boo Boo gets to come home to live with us. It is hard to tell from the photo but he is already relatively large. He is going to be a big boy that is for sure.