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"It's not like Real Work, though... is it?"

A particularly trying day. You know, you have problems with trying to get Monday's work done at the same time as Tuesday's schedule, but meanwhile the accounts department needs you to chase slow payers (who are even slower at answering email) which means you don't have time to call back the irritating idiots who reckon you are late with payment on some trivial chore or other...? And then one of them, instead of sympathising, says: "Well, it's not like you have a real job, which involves real work, is it? You just take stuff, and write it down."

So I thought I'd share a few of my in-tray time-wasters with you.

Freedom Grill's "FG-50 Tailgate Party - Ride Outside Grill" Demo Video Wins Telly Award

The award winning Freedom Grill FG-50 Ride Outside Tailgating Grill now has an award winning demo video to show how it works. "FG-50 Tailgate Party - Ride Outside Grill Demo" won a Bronze Telly Award for Best Commercial in the 28th Annual Telly Awards, announced last month. The patented Freedom Grill design combines the quality features and convenience of a high-end backyard grill with the easy transportation of a portable grill for an incredible grilling experience on the road or at home and this video demonstrates all of the features without the need for a full-size truck display. - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9EvDH0BuUw

You starting to get the idea? Try this:

Farfromboring.com Creates a New Approach for Promotional Advertising

Farfromboring.com truly lives up to its name by creating an exciting, consumer-friendly online promotional products catalog. Recently spun off from Farfromboring Promotions, Farfromboring.com was created to simplify the promotional products buying process for customers.

Or try this:

Fat Jack Hosting Providing a Donkey Kick to the Competition with Virtualization 2007

Fat Jack Hosting has just inked a virtualization deal with SwSoft technology. The deployment of this software will not only save the Web hosting company money, but it will also afford Fat Jack customers the latest and most stable virtualization environment.

Fancy something more chewy? How about:

Koders Announces Full Compatibility with Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System

Comprehensive Source Code Search can now be integrated with Microsoft Team Foundation Server, SharePoint and Visual Studio.

Not into programming? more of a Outdoor Person? Try:

PUMA's® Fall "I'm Going" Advertising Campaign Conveys Energized Elegance Through Acrobatic Poses

Eh?

Puma partnership with Tank Design creates ad campaign with dynamic blend of movement, color and energy.

Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) August 28, 2007 -- Known for portraying a collision of lifestyle fashion, color, and bodies in motion, PUMA revealed a new advertising campaign for its popular "I'm Going" series. Similar to previous campaigns, the new ads express movement, athleticism, and progression, combined with explosions of neon color. Frozen in time, the color adds an intensity and power to the highly composed and sophisticated images.

Intensity, power, mmmmmm.... OK, maybethis:

Mesa Dynamics Releases First Universal Desktop Platform For Web Widgets

Mesa Dynamics announced today the alpha preview release of Amnesty Hypercube for Windows, the first universal desktop platform for web widgets, including Google Gadgets and the hundreds of thousands of other publicly available web widgets, Flash games and videos that are designed to run on the web.

All too much?

Just since Friday, when I was told that Outskirts Press Announces the Release of The Journey to Mei, the Latest Highly-Anticipated Book from Author Freddie Remza I've received no fewer than 120 such gripping announcements. From "What's Next After We Virtualized Our Servers? A Kusnetzky Group Paper" through "MyEclipse With "Almost Unprecedented Performance" in JDJ Reader's Choice Awards" and "How Your Phone Line Can Improve Your Bottom Line: Expert Advice From Mike Durante, CEO Select Telecom" to such gems as "Farms Technology Launches 'e-Pit'" (e-Pit executes a simultaneous electronic hedge order and cash grain purchase utilizing the dynamic pricing platform) or "pMDsoft Guarantees PQRI Compliance for Physicians" and "New Free Business Class Logo Making Website Offers Powerful Tools for Professional Quality Logo Production"...

And the irritating thing: it takes me no longer to throw this junk in the bin, than it does to write it up like this.

No, I'm not suicidal. I'm just admiring this cut-throat razor as a potential addition to my lethal appliance collection... maybe I should put out a PR announcement?

What? Oh. You're actually interested in the logo design site? It's at http://www.logoease.com/ ... oh. You were kidding. Ha ha.

I think it is time I got a proper job, yes...