08 Oct 08 David Kernell, gets the book thrown at him

By now, everyone in America knows who Sarah Palin is, but do you know who David Kernell is?  He is the sweet little innocent boy who thought it was a fun idea at the time to try and break into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account.  Yes, believe it or not here is his current options in life.   He looking at actual prison time and a fine.  Currently he is released without bail, but cannot touch a computer unless it has to do with him doing his homework.

So, let us go back and think for a second where this young boy went wrong.  First and foremost he bragged about it.  He wanted the street cred and now what is his future going to look like.  Not that great if you ask me.  If and I mean if he had any smarts about him at all, he would have broke in the Sarah Palin’s email account at the school library, left it open for the next person to see and let them take the credit for it.  This whole hacking thing has got to be totally underground and quiet or you will just get your ass in jail.

Let me back up for a second on this Sarah Palin email breakin thing with David Kernell.  There is the possibility another student took my advice and set David Kernell up.  If this is the case was the person who setup David Kernell smart enough not to leave any trails?  I sure hope so and if this is the case, them this story is so much better than a stupid high school student wanting some recognition for hacking into a Yahoo email account belonging to Sarah Palin.

I hope you life goes well for you David Kernell.  You have had your 15 minutes of fame.  Enjoy it while you can because for you it sounds like you will not have another chance for another 15 minutes.

Tags: david kernell, sarah palin

07 Oct 08 Google Mail Goggles

Have you ever been really drunk and decided to really let loose those deep down feelings for another person in your life?  Did you regret sending out that email the next day?  Well there is a new Google Labs feature called Mail Goggles.  Yes, it is kinda like beer goggles, but you have to think before you send out an email.

Check out the picture below.

If you are really needing to enable Mail Goggles for GMail, here is what you do.

1. Log into your GMail account
2. Click on the settings link in the upper right hand corner of the screen
3. Click on the Labs link to the far right under settings
4. Enable Mail Goggles (it is about half way down)
5. You can customize when this feature is enable by going to Settings again then to the General tab

I can’t believe this little app made so much news today.  Is this really needed?  Are we going to start seeing this sort of behavior in Outlook and Thunderbird?  Will this be a feature in Exchange for corporate America?  I sure hope not, but you never know.  It could be something that is needed.

Tags: Goggle Mailer, Google Labs, Google Mail