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Go To Work Without Leaving Home on June 1: Unofficial Work From Home Day

To mark the one week countdown before Canada’s Unofficial Work From Home Day, Workopolis today reveals the results of a new survey showing overwhelming support for the campaign which first got the attention of the Canadian Parliament last November. Given all the benefits associated with teleworking, nine in ten (88 per cent) of Canadian workers agree there should be government support for a nationally recognized day, with over half (52 per cent) strongly agreeing.

Via CNW

I’m Still Alive

I’m still alive!!! Haven’t posted in a while. Been sick. Back in the saddle now. (Yes, I actually own a saddle and the thing that goes under it Still love teleworking, hate being sidelined with health stuff. Onward and upward.

Steve

Lifehacker Redesign

One of my favorite websites lifehacker.com has in my opinion violated one of my favorite idioms that being – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. This site was a daily must visit, as it’s traditional blog design allow for quick perusing of it’s often useful posts. While the web developer in me likes some of the new tools and techniques that have been deployed, the content consumer part of me hasn’t been able to get past the frustration I’m experiencing in trying to find those useful nuggets. Sadly, I’ve bumped the site of my list of daily visits and relegated it to an occasional look see. Oh well …

Separating the wheat from the chaff

If you’re like me and you turn to the Internet for do-it-yourself (DIY) information on all sorts of topics, then you’ve probably noticed that the results that Google’s search engine returns lately are cluttered with useless sites like ehow.com, that seem more like link bait than legitimate sources of quality information. To help users of Google’s Chrome web browser deal with poor quality search results, the company has released an extension to Chrome called Personal Blocklist. This experimental add-on will transmit to Google the websites that you choose to block in your Google search results. The idea is that when you choose to block or unblock a website, the extension will also transmit to Google the URL of the website you blocked, with idea being that Google will use this information to help improve the overall quality of their search results. Let’s hope it works because finding quality DIY results has become a frustrating waste of time.