Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Y2K plus 7

I just realized that an entire 3 years of my history is on gmail. I realized that when I saw an innocuous looking phrase that said I had used 92% of the space I had on gmail. I sat wondering, what do I do with all the files? Can't transfer every mail to a remote location, as at the end of the operation I would be a wizened old sage with stubs instead of fingers. There's no group forward facility, and you can't sort mail on descending order of size either. So, in essence I'm screwed. I pretty much felt like the cave man who invented the wheel only to realize that after all the calculations and prototypes and point-of-no-return, the ice age was upon him. And the inventor of the bob sled was getting endorsements and all the chicks of the Allegheny mountains were swooning at the mere mention of his name.

I am turning to Mr. Google himself, searching for ways to get the problem solved. Stumbled upon a few websites like http://www.igniq.com/robs_blog/2004/06/gmail-tools-plugins.html. I figured if I could just get some smart predicates in the search console (or module) (whatever), and fish out the wmv and mov files that I've sent to everybody on the planet, I might get a much lighter inbox. Besides most of those files are of people eating octopuss and stuff like that. Would help end unwanted relationships, but don't carry much intellectual weight.

Those of you who just realized this hidden doomsday, and sprung to preventive action, don't forget to thank me, send me gifts, money, lovely tender willing girls. Some suggestions would help too.

Really need to get 2007 in the right perspective. Would hate it as a personal Y2K+7 as far as precious data is concerned.

2 comments:

Jawaman said...

machan... ever heard of or seen the delete button?

Unknown said...

Yes. I know that such a button exists. But I can't delete anything, as the rubbish is designed to confuse hostile aliens from other planets when they study about our civilization online.