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You’ve got Mail – and Stress

Workers spend over 50 hours cleaning out their workplace junk mail folder each year, says a UK study on e-mail at work. Imagine if your household junk drawer got that much attention!In an era when many workers prefer to shoot off an e-mail than pick up the phone, the survey uncovered the truth: so much e-mail leaves workers frustrated; slowing their productivity. In fact, dealing with evil e-mail monsters can consume up to 50% of the workday, leaving little time to get down to business.


Workplace Robots to Replace Office Workers?
Workplace robots and how they'll help in your office
Geek Formulas for Dieting Success
New geek diet appeals to nerd logic

Consumer Electronics Show Likes it Dirty

While clean machines weren’t the stars of last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, sanitation was on the minds of attendees.  A healthy hand-washing isn’t enough, say geeks, when it comes to staying germ-free at trade shows.

Bill Gates Leaves Microsoft to Explore Career Options

Although his resignation from Microsoft has been rumored for some time, Bill Gates computing days may have come to an end, at least within in the Microsoft machine.  The speculation suggesting that Bill may be ready to jump the Microsoft ship begs the question: what will he do afterwards? 

Geek Peace Poster

(Note: this is Part II of the Geek War and Peace project...)

Can't we all just get along? We thought we'd do our own small bit to encourage peace among our fellow geeks. <podium speech> I have a dream.... that one day, geeks and nerds of all types, will join together and live in peace... </end podium speech>. To celebrate the goal of peace and prosperity for all geekdom, we've managed to get rival operating systems, browsers and search engines to hold hands. Hey, at least it's a start... next step: a geeky group rendition of Kumbaya and a nerd love-in.


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