Smart Google

Those folk at Google really know what they're doing.

You know how you forget to attach your resume sometimes, and end up sending an impressive cover letter with no resume followed by the inevitable Ack! moment where you scramble to attach your resume, unsure which is worse: to apologize for the oversight, thus calling attention to the unbelievably silly mistake, or to resend the exact email only with an actual resume this time, hoping whoever is getting the resumes will somehow not see the first email you sent?

That was back in my pre-Gmail days. Apparently good old Google will even save you from your own stupidity. Lately I've been too harried to pay enough attention to pesky tasks like ensuring my work is actually attached before I hit the send button. The first time I did that using Gmail I got a warning that I mentioned the word "attached" in the body of my email but that nothing was attached, and did I really want to go ahead and send the email with nothing attached? At first it was uncanny -- I was thankful but scared. The kind of fear I feel when I watch one of those artificial intelligence movies. As in, I looked around me warily, wondering if Google planted secret little G-shaped spies around the house. Then after Google saved my ass by saving my work and "professional" image a few more times, I stopped caring and was thankful, period. 

Thanks a million, you brilliant Google people! Instead of headdesking in frustration now that Google has stopped recognizing the double quotation thing where you need to search for the exact words in that exact sequence, I'm going to recall why I fell in love with  Google in the first place. The clean white page. Those brilliant "did you mean" search suggestions (more often than not followed by me going "That is precisely what I meant! Brilliant Google"). Those fond memories of Googling stuff at my first real fulltime job at Hindawi. And now this neat attachment trick. Go Google!