undo send

After a night of partying, you plop yourself in front of your laptop at 2 a.m., plate of Bagel Bites in hand. Suddenly, you're consumed by an urge to channel the writing skills you last used in literary criticism class.

The result? A good, old-fashioned drunk e-mail.

They range in severity from "I can't believe I wrote that" to "I can't believe I wrote that and you're still speaking to me."

But now, one e-mail host might make the drunk missive obsolete.

Gmail has added an Undo Send feature that gives you a five-second time window to reevaluate your decision. Sure, that's pretty short, but it's better than nothing.

And I speak from firsthand experience when I note it only takes two seconds to realize you hit "reply all" instead of "reply."