Life is one big multi-task!

From the nice folks who brought us MS Calendar - etiquette for multi-tasking with a laptop/PDA during a meeting. They forgot this invalauble piece of advice which works as well as when someone jerks you awake in a meeting - say "when?", not  "what?"

I wish Microsoft had a calendar label called "What am I doing here?". Like the hour I spent yesterday trying to help my daughter invert text for a school project. MS Word allows you to underline, strike through, bold, change colors, but not invert. As always there is a workaround. Still could not get the font size right, though. Think of the number of Twitter messages I could have sent in that hour! My daughter managed to get/send a few IMs during that time. I think she is in awe of Justine for the 30,000 IMs she sent out in a month.
 
Back to meetings - Dean Hachamovitch of Microsoft explains how they view laptops and other personal gadgets during meetings. I wonder if they code during meetings - may explain some of the quality issues -)

My personal confession - sure I have used laptops to multi-task during meetings. But only in sessions where there is almost guaranteed Death by Powerpoint.