.: On Tokyo Time :.

When your work stops being your “Real Life”, and “Leisure” starts becoming your real life i.e. When your job just becomes this unpleasant “thing”, something with no other meaningful function other than to finance your new “Real Life” i.e your ‘Lifestyle’… you know, the expensive part with all the shopping, beaches, cocktail parties, vacuous conversations etc.

[Via gapingvoid]

I love my job and couldn’t have it another way! And I feel really sad for all the people who hate going to work. Maybe it’s time to change something?

Go read the full article!

Larry Page said [via Google Blogoscoped]:

“I’m so glad you made this mistake. Because I want to run a company where we are moving too quickly and doing too much, not being too cautious and doing too little. If we don’t have any of these mistakes, we’re just not taking enough risk.”

Terry Semel and Yahoo! are also encouraging risk taking. Can’t immediately find a good quote online.

What does it take for employees to act accordingly?

Google received a call from Space! And Yahoo! too (damn can’t find a link)! And others too. And you thought you were special…

I received 4 credit card applications this week (and it’s not even Friday yet)!

- Western Mutual – No thanks

- United Mileage Plus – This is the only one that interests me a little. But CHASE has refused me before (no credit history). So there you go!

- Capitol One – Who?

- Jet Blue – American Express just doesn’t sound appealing to me

I have 1 credit card and that’s pretty much all I need. Thanks for asking.

The Washington Mutual return envelope made me smile. It had a warning about tempering with the envelope and a customer tracking code on it. I thought about sending their stuff back but ended up not to bother…

Is it just me or is the laptop fire at Yahoo! caused by a recalled Dell (actually Sony) battery ironic in light of the Yahoo! recall TV commercial?

Which reminds me that I still haven’t checked my D600… Dell battery recall detail here