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For those of you that hadn’t heard, some of the big news this week was that Gtalk, the Google chat application, in now inter-operable with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM, if you’re hip).
Gtalk is available as a standalone downloadable client, but it’s also built into the Gmail online client, as you’ve seen if you’ve logged into […]

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/design/The_Pock_IT_Like_A_Post_IT_But_With_A_Pouch’;In what is surely the product development equivalent of the Snakes on a Plane phenomenon, the web is abuzz today over the concept of the Pock-It.
Essentially, a post-it note with strategically placed adhesive, the Pock-It allows you to post a note and package something along with it.
The Pock-It is the brainchild of Taiwanese […]

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Another thing to look forward to (dread?) this time of year are performance reviews and year-end bonuses.
I’ll have a post on the year-end bonus later in the week. In the meantime, K. Stone over at DumbLittleMan has beaten me to the punch with a great post about how to get a positive annual review in […]

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It’s getting to be that time of year again.
Well, yes, Hanukkah starts tonight. But I was actually speaking of taxes. It’s time to start worrying about taxes. If you’re one of those people who depends on your tax refund to pay off your Holiday spending, I’ve got good news for you.
This handy little tool from […]

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Sorry. I couldn’t resist.
Mainly because I still, to this day, use the famous How To Fold A Shirt tip on a weekly basis.
This one seems a bit more involved. Still, if you could master it, how cool would it be?
The Fastest Way to Tie a Tie - How to Tie a Tie in less than […]

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Dear reader:
Are you like me? Are you sticking with XP instead of upgrading to Vista? (I even quickly bought a new desktop from Dell this summer so I could still nab one with XP on it). Ain’t broke, not gonna fix it kind of thing, eh?
Excellent. My readers are good-looking and intelligent.
Now.
You know […]

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I’ve just run across a great blog for the first time: The Public Speaking Blog.
It’s exactly what you hope it would be: a comprehensive examination of all techniques Toastmaster-y.
I found an exceptional post on giving presentations that is a must-read for all working professionals who occasionally need to stand and deliver. It’s about how to […]

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This has been making it’s way around the interwebs for some time, but it’s something I use constantly, both at work and at home. So, here you go. Happy Championship Saturday.
How much time have you wasted in 800 number purgatory? What if you could get in touch with a real, actual person with the click […]

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The announcement of Live Documents last week got a lot of press attention, mostly because this is a new initiative by the guy who started Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft for $400 million.
But it also serves to highlight once again that Office is no longer the only game in town when it comes to […]

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How many times have you wanted to convince your boss that this, the fifth meeting on the same subject, with the same people going over the same material and resulting in the same outcome - yes, this very meeting you’re almost sleeping through today - is a colossal waste of both time and money?
Well, now […]

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