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A great movie you've probably never heard about

I saw this movie many years ago and for some reason thought about it the other day.  The "humor" is dark so be warned, but A Shock to the System starring Michael Caine ranks up there (for me) with the great flicks about office politics and power.  Again, this is no Office Space, but as the clip below illustrates, it is highly entertaining.  This was the only clip I found on YouTube...

Google searches used to find me

A bit slammed today so posting late on Friday.  Thought I would share some of the Google searches used to find this blog over the last couple months.  I am set up on Google's analytics and it gives some pretty good information so thought I would share some of the things people used to find me.  A few interesting ones here:

1. all emails are not created equally
2. alternatives to email collaboration
3. average emails received a day
4. bluetooth eavesdropping
5. coffee is for closers
6. detect duplicate emails based on phrase in body
7. does e-discovery limit gmail usage in business
8. electronic communication nasd
9. email retention policy 90 days inbox
10. emails you cant reply to
11. exchange journal eliminate duplicate messages
12. fried blackberries
13. generational communication
14. google acquisition of postini
15. how people use their technology
16. how to control reply all
17. hype anybody here
18. living without email
19. memail
20. sharepoint send alerts to external email address "without email"
21. sig hansen northwestern seattle residence
22. terrifying emails
23. visiting seattle
24. vosnap
25. why do people reply to all?

Don't let Powerpoint suck the life out of you

We spend way too much time these days on slide decks...and, while they have their place, they are often poorly built.  Here's an entertaining look at how not to use Powerpoint from comedian Don McMillan (picked up via WallStreetFighter).

Too busy to work

A good friend described one of her friends in this way.  So much going on that there wasn't really time for a job.  Seems a reasonable life goal....

This, of course, assumes you have the means to see a paycheck as a luxury or are otherwise able to generate (or receive) some cash to live on that gives you a load of free time. 

This is an eye-opening article from SFGate I picked up via WallStreetFighter on what those people are doing that you see out on the street during the workday.  Different cities have varying amounts of this type of traffic and we have all seen it.  Cities like New York and San Francisco certainly do.  Even Seattle has its fair share.   If you are like me, you have wondered the same thing both with a little jealousy and amazement - what do these people do?  There was a great ad several years ago (still looking for clip) of an SUV in Manhattan with a kayak and bike on top and a guy in a suit looking at it longingly and thinking to himself "It's Tuesday, people work on Tuesday."  Well, not everyone.

This is an entertaining read and sheds some light on what those people in the coffee shop are really doing and what their story is.  Also, fair warning, it may make you want to smack these people too.