Thursday, October 13. 2005

B-Talk Auto Save

G-mail now offers a real nifty feature - Auto Save. So whenever you type out your missives and the power goes kaboom and blacks out, your mails would be auto saved as drafts. And you can retrieve them when you go online again. You need never lose a precious thought or word again! Cool, eh?

Now, my brother has this habit of making me go off-tangent whenever I yak with him. I'll be talking about some topic, and he will distract me with questions which I had to answer and soon I'd find myself going, 'Now, what was I talking about before we went off-track??" And then of course I would strangle the poor dude for making me lose my thread of thoughts.

In order to save his neck, my brother developed a skill quite akin to G-mail's auto save feature. Check out how cool B-Talk (Bro Talk) is:

Without B-Talk Auto Save
Me: So I got to know two new friends a few months ago. One was Kate and the other is Maureen and...

Bro: Maureen, wait... Isn't she the one with the afro hairdo?

Me: No, no, that's not Maureen, that's Karen lar.

Bro: And when did you meet Karen?

Me: Errr... two years ago, I think?

Bro: Why did she opt for that kinda hairdo?

Me: I dunno, I think she was just being adventurous kua.

Bro: I see, I see.

Me: Eh, why are we talking about Karen now? Where was I??

Bro: Errr... errr...

Me: Arggggh! I lost my train of thought! And it was about something juicy, too I think. You ar!!! strangle *strangle*


With B-Talk Auto Save:
Me: So I got to know two new friends a few months ago. One was Kate and the other is Maureen and...

Bro: Maureen, wait... Isn't she the one with the afro hairdo?

Me: No, no, that's not Maureen, that's Karen lar.

Bro: And when did you meet Karen?

Me: Errr... two years ago, I think?

Bro: Why did she opt for that kinda hairdo?

Me: I dunno, I think she was just being adventurous kua.

Bro: I see, I see.

Me: Eh, why are we talking about Karen now? Where was I??

Bro: Afro hairdo... Maureen... You made two new friends last month...

Me: Ahhh! Ok, yeah, well Kate and Maureen are the wackiest gals in town. Why just the other day, they made me do...yadda yadda yadda...


Pretty nifty, eh?

Though I suspect I shall find another reason to strangle him soon. Isn't sibling sparring so very fun?
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*oh, i love love love the auto-save feature of gmail so much too! it's so good, and safe! nowadays, i even type my blog post in gmail prior to posting them in the blog.

a big kudos to gmail team! such a brilliant idea!
#1 Anonymous on 2005-10-14 14:10 (Reply)
*Hey, that's a great way to save one's post and not lose it should the pc hang! Thanks for the tip, Greenapple :-)
#2 Anonymous on 2005-10-14 14:48 (Reply)
*Your friend Irene needs Auto Save! ;-)
#3 Anonymous on 2005-10-14 18:08 (Reply)
*Errr... why?
#4 Anonymous on 2005-10-14 20:23 (Reply)
*Her car is in bad shape.
#5 Anonymous on 2005-10-14 21:07 (Reply)
*Ah, it's a pun! :-)
#6 Anonymous on 2005-10-15 00:07 (Reply)
*Auto save...LOL!
#7 MarkLaRoi (Homepage) on 2005-10-15 16:22 (Reply)
*And a bad one at that.
#8 Anonymous on 2005-10-15 08:26 (Reply)
*Am logging in from Phuket now :-P

Jimmeh, it's not you, it's me. I guess I was the blur one :-P
#9 Anonymous on 2005-10-16 10:08 (Reply)

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