The Bad Decision Blocker is an iPhone app that gives you the option of blocking any of your cellphone contacts for specific periods of time (via SwissMiss). The premise is, as you might imagine, that it keeps you from making ill-advised phone calls when, um, your judgment is not what it should be. So, before you head out for a night on the town, you can make it impossible to call your ex, say, or your Mum, until the next morning.
Gmail has a similar function for email, called Mail Goggles. Basically, it requires you to solve math problems within a specific time frame, before you can send that email! They’re a bit more coy about what it’s for, but I think the fact that the default activation setting is late at night on weekends, pretty much explains why you might want to use it.
OK, confession time. Ever sent a drunken email or made a tipsy phone call you’ve regretted later? Perhaps you’ve been on the receiving end of one (please, no names of the person who sent it to you). Tell us your story! If we use your story on the air, we’ll send you a Spark bag. Thanks!
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I have had several drunken messages from my ex-girlfriend wanting to visit. Everything from the happy to the depressed to the angry in 7 voice mails. I also broke up with an ex because of an email i sent very early in the morning and drunk. All for the better now though. As for beer goggle, i tried it. Didn't like it. I can't do that much math in the middle of the day, how can i even think about it when drunk.
I remember the time when it was said to never trust anyone over thirty. Now I think it is never trust anyone under thirty. I deal with a number of under thirty somethings and after one bad experience of sending a voice mail in which I expressed what I hoped would be a confidential statement and then had it spread throughout the corporation … well now I just step away from the phone for 24 hours, at last most of the time.
Ouch! That's another interesting wrinkle to this that I hadn't even thought of: the ease of circulating emails and voicemails!
Ummm…many a time I have called the ex boyfriend convinced that I was at my sexiest I have ever been, wanting him to die of jealousy and guilt… He was a trooper about it though. Although it was quite the thing when I heard what I had said the next morning… I would have NEVER uttered such filth when I was sober.
Nora, the part that really concerns me is that as a "senior" guy in the game a "junior" might like to have someone to confide in, ask questions in confidence and get answers in confdence … and not share even as tempting as it may be. I still have dealings with the person in question and as she has moved up the ladder more interaction on a daily basis. But will I trust her again with a straight answer? Sorry no, from now on I will respond only as if it is in a open meeting.