Send an email to the future with time machiner

What would be really cool is if you could make it send an email when something happens. Few examples:

- Let me know when the weather forecast for Boston is above 18* C (so I could plan a picnic for tomorrow, for example)

- Notify me when the next episode of my show is on/next time my team is playing

- Notify me next time Paul Oakenfold is playing in Boston (which may be far away, but I sure don't want to miss it)

- Let me know when the USD/GBP exchange rate drops under 2 GBP for 1 USD (again, far, far way:) )

I know each one of those would require extra programming, but that would be a VERY cool service. You could set up some kind of platform, so people can write their own conditions/event checks.

Plus, amassing all that interest data could be quite valuable if, for example, I'm Paul Oakenfold's agent.

Why can't I send them to the past? It seems like a really obvious and useful feature. And isn't it supposed to be spelled timemachinr?

Nice! Dave Winer used to run one of these at http://www.mailtothefuture.com/ but shut it down because the idea only "sort of worked". Here's hoping it sticks better this time.

Just sent myself a future-mail telling myself to go to the driving range this weekend. I hope it works, because I'm totally gonna forget otherwise.

The reply messages take too long to get back...

I'll write my review of this on Dec 31 2030.

I could see this as a handy web service.

"send a message back if you can"

I sent myself an email tomorrow. I'll let you know how it works out.