Watch this video below and tell me “What are the odds?”

Remember the manager’s credo:
Any job that can be done by 4 people in 40 hours can be done by 2 people from IT in half the time…

A number of blogs have recently pointed out the amazing collection of desktop wallpapers that can be found in the Flickr Wallpapers Group. So I thought I’d share a few of my favorite desktop wallpaper sites..

It doesn’t matter which Operating System you use, everyone loves a good desktop wallpaper site. Here are my favorites (all are pop-up free):

1. Interfacelift.com has 980+ wallpapers, in wide-screen and standard sizes. You can sort the images by date, popularity, category and resolution.
2. Chaoscope is a 3D strange attractors rendering program (whatever that is). If you use Windows, you can download the software (free) and create your own. Or, just browse the gallery and users gallery (about 60 images)
3. DeviantART wallpapers. Sort by group, popularity, date added etc. Home to 1000’s, if not more, of wallpapers.
4. Caedes
5. is a close community of artists, designers, and photographers who share
6. their work through the medium of computer desktop wallpaper. You can
7. browse the thousands of images by galleries.
8. Pixelgirl Presents has 1100+ desktop wallpapers that can be sorted by category, resolution and artist.
9. McCanner’s Hockey Wallpapers
10. is the best hockey wallpaper site on the Internet. The best. If you’re
11. not a hockey fan, you might want to skip it though… Go Leafs!
12. Virgin.net Wallpapers - popular music bands, sorted by band name.

Your employer cannot look at text messages sent on your work-issued PDAs, according to a federal appellate court decision.

According to a federal appellate court decision, employers do not have the right to read the contents of employees’ text messages that are obtained from a third-party provider. Here’s the rundown of the case that spurred this decision, according to Workforce.com:

A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco also held in its decision June 18 in Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co. Inc. that the city of Ontario, California, had violated the constitutional privacy rights of a police officer and the recipients of his text messages when it obtained copies of the messages from Arch Wireless Operating, a unit of Westborough, Massachusetts-based Arch Wireless Inc. Arch provided two-way alphanumeric pages under contract with the city.

According to the decision, Jeff Quon exceeded his monthly allotted characters in his text messages several times. He was told the Ontario Police Department would audit his messages unless he paid an overage fee, which he did. But the city still asked Arch Wireless to send it transcripts of his messages to ascertain whether they were work-related.

Quon and the recipients of his messages subsequently sued, claiming violations of the Stored Communications Act and the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unlawful seizure.

In a ruling that partially overturned a lower court’s decision, the appellate court said Arch is an “electronic communications service,” which, according to the 1986 Stored Communications Act, is prohibited from “knowingly [divulging] to any person or entity the contents of a communication while in electronic storage by that service” except to the intended recipient.

The appellate court also held that the plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment rights were violated.

“Do users of text messaging services such as those provided by Arch Wireless have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their text messages stored on the service provider’s network? We hold that they do,” says the decision, which returned the case to the lower court.