http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Mon, 7 Jul 2003 19:56:29 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/07/171625.php#comment-12531 Besides focus and efficiency issues, how many of these IMs and e-mails and phone calls and such are actually about anything? A lot of folks could lose half or two thirds of their communications and not in fact be missing anything substantive at all. 12531@blogcritics.org Mon, 7 Jul 2003 19:56:29 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/07/171625.php#comment-12528 A bunch of baloney. I have no trouble multi-tasking--oh, wait, let me get the phone--oops, pager's beeping--hey, look at all that spam in my inbox--wow, market's up, better stop shorting my company's stock--here's the mail, what? I'm being sued by Hilary Rosen for using kazaa?! That bitc--beep! finished downloading Bread's Greatest Hits, about time--wish the boss would stop staring at me during these meetings-- damn! I just sent my whole hard drive to print--now, where was I? Oh, yes, multi-tasking. Doable, very doable. It's all a question of discipline. Focus and finish, that's my motto! 12528@blogcritics.org Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:11:05 EDT