PCs take nine sick days a year

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PCs Use More Sick Days Than People

PCs Use More Sick Days Than People 06/25/2004 02:10 PM

How Many Sick Days Does Your Computer
Have?

How Many Sick Days Does Your Computer
Have? 06/23/2004 11:06 AM
A new study from Yahoo in the UK shows that the average British computer has nine "sick days", where the owner has to waste time fixing problems instead of being productive. Six of those nine days are due to dealing with spam, and the other three are from viruses. Once again, though, people are looking to their ISP to solve this problem, even if ISPs have been hesitant to do so. It's getting to the point, however, where ISPs that don't aggressively police their networks for spam, viruses and other malware may start losing customers to those that do.

PCs take more sick days than their users

PCs take more sick days than their users 06/23/2004 10:36 PM

Note to coworkers regarding sick days

Note to coworkers regarding sick days 12/13/2003 10:27 AM
Fellow Yahoos, Apparently some of you have forgotten about our company's most excellent "sick days" policy. It basically states that there's no fixed number of sick days that you're allowed to use per year. You cannot accumulate sick days and they don't expire. Instead, when you're sick or have a medical obligation, you stay home or otherwise deal with it. The logical consequence of this policy, I thought, was quite simple--easy enough for a 5 year old to grasp. But...

Number of sick days 'rise by 10m'

Number of sick days 'rise by 10m' 05/23/2004 10:32 PM
The number of sick days taken by staff at British firms has risen for the first time in five years, according to a new report.

Company Gets In Trouble For Ads
Promoting Fake Sick Days

Company Gets In Trouble For Ads
Promoting Fake Sick Days 08/04/2004 03:05 PM
Apparently, despite all the clever humor to come out of the UK over the years, the folks who work at the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK have no sense of humor at all. Tech giant Benq started an ad campaign this summer suggesting that with their products, your "bogus sick days will be 33% more enjoyable." Not laugh out loud funny, but an amusing little tagline to get some interest. Apparently, the ASA is scared to death that people will take this seriously and start calling in sick just to mess around with Benq computers -- because we're sure that before this ad came out no one ever faked a sick day.

A handy guide to maximizing your 2004
holiday schedule by planning your sick
days

A handy guide to maximizing your 2004
holiday schedule by planning your sick
days 01/07/2004 06:59 PM
plan their sick days properly

workingfortheman.com/sickday2004.html
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Tribes: Vengeance GoldGet ready to cash
in your sick days; Tribes: Vengeance has
gone gold for the PC

Tribes: Vengeance GoldGet ready to cash
in your sick days; Tribes: Vengeance has
gone gold for the PC 09/22/2004 06:36 AM
Gigex Sep 22 2004 10:33AM GMT

Broadband worth 52 days a year to UK.biz

Broadband worth 52 days a year to UK.biz 05/12/2004 07:09 AM
Lost productivity recovered

Kospi rebounds in 4 days, with Kosdaq at
new year-low

Kospi rebounds in 4 days, with Kosdaq at
new year-low 07/27/2004 07:45 PM
Maekyung Internet Jul 27 2004 11:19PM GMT

How Dotster cost me days and days of
downtime: stay away from this registrar

How Dotster cost me days and days of
downtime: stay away from this registrar 08/12/2004 07:36 AM
A year ago, the DNS for craphound.com disappeared. Which was weird, because I was paying for DNS with Dotster, my registrar.

I called them up and spoke to their tech support people. "Oh yeah," they said, "your paid service ended a month ago but our billing system was broken so we didn't send out a notice. So we terminated you for nonpayment. But dude, you're lucky! We gave you a free month's DNS!"

Lucky lucky me. I got a free month's DNS and to pay for it, I was bouncing mail all over the Internet and my Website wasn't resolving. Bastards. I bought two years' worth of DNS and vowed that when the domain came up for renewal, I'd switch away from Dotster. I sent them an email telling them as much and got an email back apologizing and saying that they would certainly never terminate my DNS wihtout notice again (you see where this is going, I trust)

Craphound.com is up for renewal at the end of August. Not wanting to leave things to the last minute, I changed over early this month, switching registrars to Domain Direct, who are now the registrar for all of my domains, and boingboing.net besides.

I didn't move over the DNS -- I figured I'd paid Dotster for another year's service, I might as well get it. Instead, I left myself a reminder in my iCal for next July to set up DNS at DomainDirect a month ahead of the service running out on Dotster.

This morning, Dotster terminated my DNS. Without warning. And when I called, they told me there was nothing they could do about it. Even though there's nothing in my DNS contract that says that DNS is provided to domains registered with Dotster and no others, that is, apparently, their policy. And they can't make exceptions. Not even for 48h while I effect a graceful change to DomainDirect (who have been fantastic throughout and now have 100 percent of my domain registration and DNS business).

Bastards.

sick day

sick day 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
I have a love/hate relationship. I love being home to nurture an illness, but I hate being home all day....

Sick!

Sick! 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
I just wrote a long story here, it disappeared, I am sick, Marius is sick (throwing up), and everything is...

Sick Car

Sick Car 06/22/2004 12:41 PM
My car is sick. However instead of waiting for it to explode and buy a new one I actually took it to a shop to...

PCs are sick, sick, sick

PCs are sick, sick, sick 06/24/2004 06:18 PM
Insanely Great Mac Jun 24 2004 9:52PM GMT

I'm Sick

I'm Sick 08/27/2004 01:48 PM

My insides are becoming my outsides. I'll try to get something going here in a bit.

sick graphics

sick graphics 08/29/2004 01:48 AM
TechTree Aug 29 2004 5:47AM GMT

YSM ICQ - You Sick Me - ICQ Client

YSM ICQ - You Sick Me - ICQ Client 05/01/2004 06:54 PM
ysm 2.9.5 is ready!

All kinds of Ick in my Sick

All kinds of Ick in my Sick 12/29/2003 04:20 PM
Not to a whole lot of fun going on here I'm sick of being sick, the rain looks more like...

What a sick thing to do...

What a sick thing to do... 07/25/2004 04:03 PM
Bush administration seeks to block consumer drug suits. White House says injury claims undermine FDA.
Gee. I don't know wh y we might need some legal recourse against drug manufacturers?
Weasels!

Sick and Sicker

Sick and Sicker 03/20/2003 05:31 PM
I've been sick this past week, but that hasn't stopped me from testing applications for Lockergnome. In between trips to the toilet, I stumbled upon Huminity. I'd point you directly to its site, but I don't want you to install it. In fact, I want you to tell everybody on the PLANET not to install it. Why? Because it just raped my address book. I guess I didn't take their privacy policy literally: 'Contacts are notified by a one-time e-mail notification about their inclusion in the Huminity network.' WTF?! Assume that when you install the program, the people in your contacts list will be notified with no further warning. Sick! Well, if you got a message from me telling you to join this network, let me use this space to WARN YOU to avoid this site / software at all cost....

Are you sick of Google yet?

Are you sick of Google yet? 08/18/2004 04:57 PM

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Are we sick of Google yet? Expect to get even sicker as the Google IPO becomes an exercise in futility for the company and the investment community at large. The reason why this has turned into a laughable fiasco is because the investment bankers, the brokers, and the middlemen have decided to queer this deal in any way they can. Nobody who got rich during the dot-com era wants to see the model for the…

Sycamore Sick No More?

Sycamore Sick No More? 05/11/2004 02:57 PM
Setting expectations for this onetime high flier.

PCs out sick more than users

PCs out sick more than users 06/25/2004 08:37 AM
The average UK PC is rendered unusable for the equivalent of around nine working days every year because the owner is cleaning up spam or fighting viruses. This is two days a year more than the average UK worker takes off as sick leave, according to Yahoo. A survey of 2,500 UK e-mail users found that 70 percent of users had been infected by a virus in the past year and 42 percent say they found it less stressful fighting their way through rush-hour traffic than finding legitimate e-mails among the spam in their inboxes. Spam is a problem for all e-mail users but some companies are hit harder than others.

So Damned Sick

So Damned Sick 12/02/2002 01:17 PM
I've been mentally and physically off-line for a couple days. A ton of people at work all seem to have gotten very sick as of Tuesday night. I'll spare the details, but suffice it to say that I've not been...

sick leave?

sick leave? 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
Tell me, WTF is up with ER not being on for two weeks? This is the one show that Kevin...

School made him sick

School made him sick 06/17/2005 03:35 PM
David Pescovitz: An Olathe, Kansas high school student was charged with battery against a school official for vomiting on his Spanish teacher. The boy's father said his son was just sickened by the stress of exams and didn't purposefully throw up on the teacher. An assistant district attorney said he has witnesses who say that's not the case. "I think a message is being sent by both the school district and the district attorney that this behavior will not be tolerated," the teacher told the Associated Press. Link

Flick mosquitos or you could get sick
and die

Flick mosquitos or you could get sick
and die 07/19/2004 01:32 AM
If you catch a mosquito feeding on you, you should flick it away rather than squashing it, lest you drive its infectious guts into your body.

The issue is reviewed in an article published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine that focuses on a 57-year-old Pennsylvania woman who died in 2002 of a fungal infection in her muscles called Brachiola algerae.

Doctors were puzzled because the fungus was thought to be found only in mosquitoes and other insects. But it's not found in mosquito saliva like West Nile virus and malaria, so a simple mosquito bite could not have caused the infection.

The article's authors concluded that the woman must have smashed a mosquito on her skin, smearing its body parts into the bite.

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Does E-Mail Make You Sick?

Does E-Mail Make You Sick? 12/16/2003 05:32 AM
Popular Mechanics Dec 16 2003 4:35AM ET

I'm sick of doing things the hard way

I'm sick of doing things the hard way 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
That's it. I've decided. I'm switching. In the very near future (after taxes are computed, reported, and paid) I'm putting one of my Thinkpads (the T21 running Linux) and my oldish G4 Apple Powerbook (15" 550MHz) up for sale. Using the funds from those sales and a bit of other cash, I'll be buying a new 15" Powerbook. This has been a long time coming. In the nearly 2 years since I wrote that reivew, I've upgraded it a bit....

Sun falls sick with same IPSec/SSH bug
as HP

Sun falls sick with same IPSec/SSH bug
as HP 01/22/2004 08:47 AM

Sick workers 'struggle on'

Sick workers 'struggle on' 01/23/2004 03:55 AM
West Midlands employees and white-collar workers are the most likely to struggle into work when they are ill.

Computers Make You Sick

Computers Make You Sick 09/09/2004 12:33 PM
Not feeling so good? Perhaps you should blame your computer. A new study says that three out of every four office workers have health problems because they're not properly trained to use their computer. The problems are pretty obvious: back problems, eyesight problems or headaches. As this becomes a bigger and bigger problem, the suggestion is that corporations need to be more proactive in training people on good computing and good ergonomics. Of course, none of this seems particularly new, and many companies already have ergonomics groups that make sure people are well set up to use their computer in a healthy manner. At some point, good computing practices and good ergonomics are going to be issues that people are trained in at an early age -- and not at the office. However, in the meantime, companies who want to protect their employees' eyes, back and head might want to do a better job ensuring good computing ergonomic practices.

The Internet Is a Very Sick Place

The Internet Is a Very Sick Place 12/23/2003 07:15 AM
Viruses and worms ran rampant in 2003, but be prepared for worse, as the malware writers team up with the Net's other ne'er-do-wells, the spammers. By Michelle Delio.

Whose Busienss Is It When CEOs Get Sick?

Whose Busienss Is It When CEOs Get Sick? 08/09/2004 08:23 PM
"You don't make a disclosure every time someone gets a gallbladder surgery. But cancer is a highly charged illness in our society." By Benjamin Pimentel, MacNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

Contractors sick of computers

Contractors sick of computers 06/26/2004 08:29 PM
Prosperity4 Jun 27 2004 0:40AM GMT

Blocking sick surfers

Blocking sick surfers 06/07/2004 07:05 PM
USA Today Jun 7 2004 10:13PM GMT

heal your sick house

heal your sick house 02/16/2004 09:24 PM
Geopathic Stress , otherwise known as negative earth energies, black streams or earth rays, have become acknowledged as a hazard to health.

OS X Calculator: Sick, Unreliable?

OS X Calculator: Sick, Unreliable? 08/10/2004 07:37 PM
The built-in calculator in OS 10.4 may be wildly unreliable. By Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac (via MyAppleMenu)
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