The New Tech Classics

Entertainment Weekly, one of my very favorite magazines (yes, the actual magazine, with pages and everything), published its 1,000th issue this week. The issue is devoted to the "new classics"--listing the top 50 in television, movies, music, books and theater....

Technology to the Recession Rescue

Two years ago—almost to the day—I wrote a blog post suggesting that IT managers should have a solid remote computing plan in place because gas prices were getting so high that it could theoretically be prohibitive for employees to drive...

I'm (Sniff) So Sorry!

Eliot Spitzer, soon-to-be-former New York governor and the most famous No. 9 since Ted Williams, played with fire and got burned--badly. With his wife by his side (don't get me started, but here's a slideshow of wronged wives), Spitzer now-famously...

Falling Asleep on the Job

The National Sleep Foundation released a survey today that found that one-third of respondents reported they had fallen asleep or had become very sleepy during the last month at work. My first thought was, "Just one-third, huh?" My second thought...

A Paul McCartney Mashup

Paul McCartney recently said the title of his new CD, "Memory Almost Full," was taken from a phrase he saw on his cell phone. He said he saw the phrase as symbolic of how we are today: "Your messages are...

Most Heinous Phish Ever

I was watching a repeat of the American version of "The Office" over the weekend. In this particular episode, boss-without-a-clue Michael was trying to convince his much-brighter-than-the-boss staffers why a calling-card sales model was not a pyramid scheme. Of course,...

In Line for Harry Potter

I spent this past Friday night into Saturday morning in line with my younger daughter at our local Barnes & Noble. We were waiting, of course, for the long-awaited 7th (and last) Harry Potter book.

There were enough interesting things that happened during our wait that I wanted to blog about the experience. Of course, eWEEK.com is a technology-focused Web site, so I tried to come up with a technology hook.