Thursday: July 7, 2011
James Spader to take over for Steve Carell for next season of The Office.It's official: The employees of Dunder Mifflin are getting a new CEO and his name is Robert California. James Spader’s ultra-confident and sexually charged character featured briefly in the NBC hit’s May finale is set to join the cast of the show's upcoming eighth season, NBC confirmed. 'James will reprise his role as Robert California, this uber-salesman that has a power to convince and manipulate, like a high-class weirdo Jedi warrior,' said Paul Lieberstein, one of the series executive producers and a series regular.
Thursday: April 1, 2010
New survey shows that office April Fools pranks are inappropriate.No fooling -- at least not during the Great Recession. April Fools Day is no joke in this down economy. A survey of 500 advertising and marketing executives finds office pranks are now out of place. That's according to two-thirds of those asked.
Monday: March 1, 2010
Eleven tips for making for your home (or work) office more comfortable.This article seems to be geared to freelancers probably because the source website is all about freelancing. Well, I say nay to that my friends. This article can cross freelancer/worker lines and apply to anyone who happens to have an office at their job as well. I need more plants.
Thursday: February 4, 2010
Do you think that your favorite television characters need Twitter accounts?My initial response fell into the negative on this subject but then I realized that some of my favorite characters would actually be pretty funny to read in some type of Twitter capacity. For your enjoyment here is a site dedicated solely to Creed quotes.
Tuesday: December 29, 2009
Avatar flick still doing pretty well for James Cameron and company.The film has raked in a whopping $232 billion thus far. Source website seems to think that Avatar is well on it's way to reaching the likes of Star Wars ($460.9 million) and maybe even Cameron's own Titantic ($1.8 billion). Not sure how you can equate $232 million to $1.8 billion that quickly though.
Tuesday: December 8, 2009
Ten of the most innovative viral advertisements of 2009 thus far.You've probably seen more than a couple of these videos floating around the Interwebs at some point this year. If you haven't seen wedding dance spoof that appeared on The Office please go ahead and watch it on YouTube.
Thursday: September 24, 2009
A guide to making the most out of office coffee.For starters, cleaning the coffee maker every once in a while is probably a good idea.
Tuesday: September 1, 2009
A collection of the world's strangest conventions for you to gawk at.At this weeklong convention in the Netherlands, giant LEGO constructions take center stage. Watch with bated breath as teams compete in building competitions, or try to beat world-record LEGO construction times...
Monday: August 24, 2009
Twelve techie words you shouldn't say around the office anymore.Nobody talks about the 'World Wide Web' anymore, or the 'Information Superhighway,' for that matter. It’s just the Internet. It’s a distinction that Steve Czaban, the popular Fox Sports Radio talk show host, likes to mock when he refers to the 'Worldwide Interweb.'
Wednesday: August 12, 2009
Microsoft and Nokia partner up for strategic mobile alliance.The Nokia deal is potentially quite good for Microsoft, but for other reasons than Mobile Office. But, for Microsoft, Mobile Office must be the strategic priority, because the company needs to extend Office desktop software's relevance to the handset and the cloud.
Tuesday: August 11, 2009
Six ways to use your video game skills at the office.Gamers are accustomed to fighting bosses, which means that no matter how big, tough and disgustingly inhuman an office's head honcho is they will prevail. Even in the face of the menacing mini-boss -- the office brown-noser -- gamers will not falter.
Monday: August 10, 2009
A narcissistic boss destroys morale and hurts the bottom line says scientific study.'Having a narcissistic boss creates a toxic environment for virtually everyone who must come in contact with this individual,' Hochwarter said. 'The team perspective ceases to exist, and the work environment becomes increasingly stressful. Productivity typically plummets as well.'
Monday: August 3, 2009
Google launches new ad campaign directed at Microsoft.The campaign, called “Going Google,” has a very clear target: Microsoft Office. A series of advertisements will begin touting how and why some 3,000 organizations are signing up to use Google apps each day.
Tuesday: July 14, 2009
Microsoft to put lightweight versions of Office 2010 apps online for free.Microsoft's announcement is being seen as the latest move in a tit-for-tat rivalry between two tech giants as it and Google increasingly make efforts to encroach on one another's turf.
Thursday: November 9, 2006
- Office Assistant
In real life Clippy is my secret lover.