I am quite fond of Google, its philosophy towards work and the way this company has made our life easier. They try to automate most tasks which we used to do manually earlier. As an example if you receive any email in your Gmail account containing address or a date, what it does is extract the address or date and simply show a link asking you to “Map this” or “Add to calendar” respectively, on the right hand side bar.
But this time something funny happened. I received a mail from myBB for a new security release. For the uninitiated, myBB is a forum software like VBulletin, SMF. This mail had a version number on the subject 1.2.13. Now what our intelligent Gmail script did was, it took the version no from subject and converted into Wed Jan 2, 2013 and at the same time created a link to “add to calendar”. LOL
Too much of automation can be risky sometimes. 🙂
Ankur Jain is a Software Engineer in Test Automation. After a 5 years stint with Accenture and Oracle, he started his eLearning company. A long-time blogger and proud owner of the "Learn" series of websites. 