Ways to Stop Wasting Time Online

iStockphoto This weekend, each of the two times I sat down at my laptop to write this Juggle post, I had the best of intentions to bang it out in a few short minutes and move on to some other productive pursuit. Instead, each time I whiled away an embarrassingly long time playing word games on Facebook .

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Is Workplace Advancement Gender Neutral? Men and Women Disagree

Most men and women agree that opportunities to get hired at the junior level are the same regardless of gender for equally qualified candidates, a new survey shows. But when it comes to attaining senior leadership positions, men have a much rosier view than women that hiring is indeed gender neutral

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Blair the dictator bulldozed us into war

We have been told by Sir John Chilcot himself that the Chilcot inquiry is not a trial, and that nobody will be either acquitted or found guilty; we all know that is not true. A public judgment is being made as each section of evidence is given. In particular a quiet judgment has been made of Tony Blair’s conduct.

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After Avatar, movies will never be the same again

In a miracle of brains over brawn, Kathryn Bigelow has just become the first woman to win best director for her film The Hurt Locker, beating her ex-husband’s behemoth, Avatar. Bigelow’s unprecedented success at the Directors’ Guild of America Awards, which often predict the Oscar results, is a sign that cinema is in a thrilling state of flux.

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After Avatar, movies will never be the same again

Saving the planet or just toying with us?

I have suffered my first fit of consumer rage at being asked to pay 5p for a carrier bag. It happened while I was buying fairy figurines in the syrupy Hades that is The Disney Store. The assistant, in a pious, sing-songy “we’re all just trying to help the environment here” voice, announced that there was now a 5p charge for bags then suggested I upgrade by spending £1.50 on a “re-usable” carrier

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Are you reading this at work? If so, well done

Up and about, are you? Off to work? Congratulations! Tens of thousands are not, according to a sorrowful report from the employment law consultant Peter Mooney.

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The tormented eel is slithering out of existence

It is strange to think of something slimy, snake-like and nocturnal as reassuring, but it seems as if we are beginning at last to value the extraordinary eel just as it may be about to disappear. Over the past three decades the many unsolved mysteries about the eel’s unique life-cycle have been joined by one more: why has it declined to the extent that it is now classed globally as a critically endangered fish

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Out of the closet: our growing acceptance of gays

The British Social Attitudes survey — which asks people about their views on politics and social matters such as crime, drugs and relationships — makes fascinating reading. Articles with lots of percentages in them are always a bit of a turn-off, I find, but do persevere because the numbers are really interesting, for once

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The real north-south divide crippling Britain

Should your salary be the same if you move from Scunthorpe to Southampton? Should the rate for a job be identical in Newcastle, Newquay and Newark? For at least 5m people it is because they work for public employers with national bargaining arrangements and uniform pay scales.

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Why Blair can never admit to regrets

If only PD James had been on the Chilcot committee. After six hours of watching Tony Blair effortlessly deflect and disarm his interrogators at the Queen Elizabeth II centre on Friday, how could one not be struck by the contrast with the courteous evisceration that James recently performed on the BBC’s director-general?

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The Dirt on Laundry: We’re Doing It All Wrong

Getty Images Do you make common laundry mistakes? We’ve previously discussed the challenges of fitting laundry into the juggle (a topic regularly requested by our readers.) Now, according to my WSJ colleague Ellen Byron , it seems that in our haste to get the laundry done, we’re actually doing it all wrong.

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iPad Mania: Confessions of an Apple Luddite

Associated Press Apple CEO Steve Jobs introducing the new iPad. Tech-aficionados the world over (and some Juggle commenter s) are abuzz over Apple’s iPad , a new tablet device that falls somewhere between a laptop and an iPhone. It’s too early to know all the myriad Juggle-friendly uses the iPad may have (reading novels and magazines or watching videos on the commute, for one)

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Give Joon and Mir birthday gifts!

Happy #100daysmblaq! Your chic-dols Joon and Mir’s birthdays are coming up! DONATE via blog: absolutemblaq.wordpress.com DONATE via forum absolutemblaq.net Come check out what we’re cooking up to send Joon and Mir, and we want YOU to be part of it too!

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Taxman should give stars a sporting chance

Most self-employed people hate January with the passion normally reserved for a professional rival who gets a gig for which we would clearly have been the better choice. First, the weather makes it difficult to get to work, and that hurts more when you don’t get paid if you don’t turn up.

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If you must get ill, make sure it’s before 6pm

Warm, fuzzy escapism is one honourable role of popular fiction, so Friday’s Coronation Street was justified in offering us a heart-warming medical vignette. A child had a fever; anxious divorced parents called their GP, who shortly turned up in their home, smiling, familiar, articulate and reassuring.

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Fear of the poor is hampering Haiti rescue

Aid workers have already baptised the earthquake in Haiti a “historical disaster”. It will rate high in the annals of the humanitarian aid world because of the number of victims and scale of the destruction

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