The 7 Types Of Bad Bosses According To Star Trek (And How To Survive Them) Captain Jean-Luc Picard was far scarier than I remember him. He's your best pal, playing poker with you and listening to you whine about your holographic love life - until you piss him off, and then suddenly he's all shouty and mean. He's like your nice uncle who suddenly turns vicious. It actually startled me ... Read full entry

Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software. Microsoft is apparently seeking to patent new software that sounds a lot like something out of a science fiction story... The system would allow managers to monitor employees' performance by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees could be dismissed on the basis of a computer's assessment of their physiological state. It sounds like ... Read full entry

Conventional wisdom tells us "the internet" has simplified the job search process. I beg to differ though. If anything, it has made the process more complicated. Sure, we can join any number of recruitment websites, find leads, send resumes, and dispatch query emails, all pretty much instantly. But the internet has also made the process far more invasive. Recruiters can now log on to our favourite social networking sites, MySpace and Facebook ... Read full entry