So I'm back in the office after a week's "vacation." Of course vacation doesn't really mean no work these days, at least not for me. I carry a Blackberry which means that I'm never really away from work. While on vacation I must have dealt with at least 30 emails that came across. Of course I could have ignored them but then this morning would have been that much harder. As it is I have to review around 550 messages to make sure I didn't skip one that really needed a response.

I thank my lucky stars that our MailSweeper service does a great job filtering out the SPAM.

I remember though when email was useful. But today it seems to really be a time hog, stealing moments away from productivity in order to get another useless tidbit of information that someone decided was important for me to see. Now don't get me wrong, I know I created my own monster here, and email is incredibly useful, but it's still refreshing to run into someone that isn't running to their email all the time.

Maybe I should write someone a letter, or even better, make a phone call...

-- Mike

So what's your take on email today? In business? At home? Let me know.