Despite the fact that very scary things have been going on at work, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that, in less than a week, I’m going to be taking advantage of a new benefit for long-time employees — a four-week paid sabbatical leave.
Why am I keeping my fingers crossed? Well, it seems that yet another [...]

I’ve written about the problem with SEM and contextual advertising in the past. But today, I clicked into my Google spam folder to see if they have added a “delete all” function yet … a seemingly very useful function.
Anyways, nope, no “delete all” … just this funny ad given the context:

I’ve updated the sidebar to use Google to search IDblog rather than Wordpress, since the latter doesn’t know anything about the old TypePad entries. Alas, Google doesn’t know anything about the really old archives, but this will have to do!
Unfortunately, using Google means I don’t get to review search logs, which provided for interesting fodder [...]

I was in the bookstore the other day, and happened across a book called Stumbling on Happiness, by Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert. The author notes that this is not a self-help how to be happy book. Rather, it’s a very interesting look at why the things we think will make us happy often don’t. Or [...]

I’ll skip the politics (for now) and just comment on their horrible written communication. What’s up with the goofy talking points? Is writing them in title case and italics meant to suggest emphasis?
Geez. Get some professional help!

I have a couple of friends who are doing cool visual blogging. Mike Lee spends most of his time moblogging these days with his Sidekick, but he is an amazingly talented photographer/digital artist. Mark Carpenter is a business guy by day, but Flick addict/moblogger by night. For a guy with an MBA, he seems to [...]

I was just given a girly keychain. It’s in the shape of the torso of a (shapely) woman, and the girly part of it is that you can interchange the torso to either be a jewel-studded pink or white dress. There’s even a little purse charm that goes on the keyring portion.
I’ll leave the implications [...]