I am extremely pleased with this product. I am enjoying the process of learning a new (to me) browser, it's really invigorating!
I looked into some sort of Firefox AdBlock add-on equivalent, but there isn't one. At first i was really pissed, but then I checked out the wildcard function in Tools/Preferences/Advanced/Content/Blocking/Add.
Even just 4basic rules, expressed individually as:
/*.ads.*/
/*.advertisements.*/
/*.doubleclick.net*/
/*.googlesyndication.*/
blocking google ads made me especially happy, as AdBlock doesn't do this.
will take care of most of your ads. As in, you won't see any more ads.
That is extremely neat!
The mail client is also pretty cool. It was super easy to import all my gmail addys. No cofiguration necessary: wizard prompts for username and password and syncs w gmail just like that. I'm setting up filters to associate w. each gmail addy, so I can easily sort.
O yeah, and almost forgot: the original reason why I grabbed it was due to famed formatting abilities. These turn out to be OK. There IS a built in-functionality for zooming text size independently of frame size, but you do this globally, via Tools/Preferences/Advanced/Fonts. As opposed to being able to do it on the fly, customized to each page. However, even this global font size customization appears to be limited to size 21 font.
I tried to find some documented evidence of this, but am unable to do so, so maybe just me?!
Friday, December 28, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Extra company holidays: 0-cost employee benefit
Extra time off: why everyone should love it.
Ahh... the so called "work" week between Xmas and New Year's Eve. My estimate is that precisely 0 work gets done in the 3.5 business days between the 2 sets of national holidays.
Exhibit A: FDR drive @ 8:45 am. Traffic speed: 75 mph. On a regular Wednesday, my CBR barely gets into 3rd gear all the way to Wall Street from LIC, Queens. This morning, I was limited only by my gloves' ability to block wind. Wall Street itself: empty, but for the obvious tourists posing for photographs, adding theirs to the millions of identical frames already extant. Sure signs of not-really-a-real-work-day.
Amazingly, here we are, expected to show up on time w. the whistle, even though 0 actual work will get done.
Undoubtedly, you have friends who get this week officially off. Enough companies see common sense and realize that they will spend MORE on lighting up the offices, than they will derive in actual value from those few of us who actually show up.
What would it cost to have a company-wide week long holiday? I say nothing. Not $1. Why? Because salaried employees shift work. The weeks before and after holidays are likely busier than usual, with many of us working longer hours to wrap up the year's loose ends. Those few workers who don't take vacation days during the holiday weeks only do so because we realize that no work will actually be expected of us. Essentially, we show up simply to hang out. We show up so as not to lose *real* vacation days, during which we would ordinarily be pretty busy.
Other examples of time similarly wasted include summer Friday afternoons, which are consumed by thoughts of beating traffic to Long Island or upstate.
Solution: sanction official company holidays for days between Xmas and New Years. It will cost next to nothing, especially when taking into account the cost of keeping offices open. Your employees will value this benefit. They will tell all their friends about it. They will work harder in the days leading up to and following the holidays themselves.
Its a win-win. And how often do you get a win-win in HR? Enough said.
Ahh... the so called "work" week between Xmas and New Year's Eve. My estimate is that precisely 0 work gets done in the 3.5 business days between the 2 sets of national holidays.
Exhibit A: FDR drive @ 8:45 am. Traffic speed: 75 mph. On a regular Wednesday, my CBR barely gets into 3rd gear all the way to Wall Street from LIC, Queens. This morning, I was limited only by my gloves' ability to block wind. Wall Street itself: empty, but for the obvious tourists posing for photographs, adding theirs to the millions of identical frames already extant. Sure signs of not-really-a-real-work-day.
Amazingly, here we are, expected to show up on time w. the whistle, even though 0 actual work will get done.
Undoubtedly, you have friends who get this week officially off. Enough companies see common sense and realize that they will spend MORE on lighting up the offices, than they will derive in actual value from those few of us who actually show up.
What would it cost to have a company-wide week long holiday? I say nothing. Not $1. Why? Because salaried employees shift work. The weeks before and after holidays are likely busier than usual, with many of us working longer hours to wrap up the year's loose ends. Those few workers who don't take vacation days during the holiday weeks only do so because we realize that no work will actually be expected of us. Essentially, we show up simply to hang out. We show up so as not to lose *real* vacation days, during which we would ordinarily be pretty busy.
Other examples of time similarly wasted include summer Friday afternoons, which are consumed by thoughts of beating traffic to Long Island or upstate.
Solution: sanction official company holidays for days between Xmas and New Years. It will cost next to nothing, especially when taking into account the cost of keeping offices open. Your employees will value this benefit. They will tell all their friends about it. They will work harder in the days leading up to and following the holidays themselves.
Its a win-win. And how often do you get a win-win in HR? Enough said.
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