Tool of the day - Slydial

OK, so maybe using this tool makes you a tool, but I'm still going to post it. Who hasn't just wanted to go straight to VM when you're dialing someone you are actually trying to avoid? Corporate telephone systems are great for this - just go into your voicemail and then create a message and send it that way - no need to pray for that person to be on another call.

I get that we're bombarded with too much information and sometimes you just want to send a quick message. That's what email, and the cell phone the walkie-talkie and text functions are for IMHO. This technology was probably inevitable, but I say that we should just suck it up and have the conversation.

This is, of course, from someone who would leave the cell numbers of unwanted suitors in my phone for way past their expiration date, on the off chance that one of them would try to call me and I'd have to duck the call.


Slydial, via (and unrelated, but hilarious: Mom's cell phone photo appears as porn to family)

Best tool of the day - Percent Change Calculator

For anyone who is a non-numbers type and has to do anything resembling financial PowerPoint slides, consider this my little Valentine's day gift to you:

NewsEngin Percent Change Calculator

The best part -- the only line of extraneous text on the page says, "The fact that you need this tool will be our little secret."

Mwah! xxoo

Best tool of the day - MeetingMeiser

Found at NYT.com:

a sister publication of CNET, BNET has found a way to figure out how much $$ is being wasted by a meeting. Called the MeetingMeiser, it uses the calculator from PayScale.com, which is usually used by job hunters trying to figure out how much to ask for.