PCs Use More Sick Days Than People

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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

PCs take nine sick days a year

PCs take nine sick days a year 06/24/2004 07:31 PM
Infomatics Jun 24 2004 11:14PM GMT

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

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.

Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands

Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands 02/10/2004 09:18 AM
CNN.com - Passengers: Pilot promotes faith on flight .. Pilot's proselytizing scares passengers .. FLYING THE PLANES!!!!

cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/09/airline.christianity/index.html
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"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"

"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions" 04/06/2005 03:07 AM

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein? 12/22/2003 07:54 AM
Well, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. Saddam Hussein was captured by Kurds, not US forces. 12/22 .. (even more) .. more

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"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..."

"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..." 12/22/2003 04:17 PM

There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people

There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people 08/27/2004 01:47 PM

Congrats to Roland and Boris and.....

They've just launched Bryght - a Drupal hosting service. I hung out with these guys a bit when I was in Vancouver and they're certainly a compelling reason for moving there.

Vancouver is hot.

Here's Roland's post....

Our latest venture is Bryght, a hosted Drupal service, "the Salesforce.com of community content". I am working with Boris, Richard, Adrian and James on this one. Yes, we are all Bryght guys :-) !

We have taken Drupal and combined it with web hosting and email to give you a one stop shop for your community content. No IT required, no muss, no fuss! Check out The lights are on at Bryght for more background on how this started. And if you know of an individual, organization or company that could use a Bryght site, please contact us.

Whither StreamLine you might ask? StreamLine continues and it will continue to resell Blogware blogs because we still believe that Blogware is the best individual blogging platform.

[Roland Tanglao's blog]

An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand

An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand 01/03/2004 07:05 AM
monochrom Brandmarker

monochrom.at/markenzeichnen/index-eng.htm
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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....

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!

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...

""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain.""

""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain."" 04/29/2004 03:19 AM

[etech] People-to-People (Microsoft)

[etech] People-to-People (Microsoft) 02/11/2004 09:36 PM
Lily Cheng from Microsoft Research is talking about how people represent themselves on line. The closer the friends, the fuzzier they want the representations. We need to make social tools fluid enough to account for the way people's lives change. We need easy access to friends and people important to us. We want sponatenous interactions. Lily's group went to a mall and asked people to draw their social interactions, and gots lots of circles and lines. Microsoft studied this and built a "personal map" that clusters people based on who they send email to (TO and CC) and how...

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 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....

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!

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...

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.

sick graphics

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

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...

Sycamore Sick No More?

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

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!

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…

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.

Contractors sick of computers

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

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....

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

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.

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

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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