The advent of the always-connected workforce has spurred a management researcher to ponder the liability of employers who take advantage of employee’s “propensity toward workaholism and technology addiction” as employees remain on-call even during leisure time.

Meez is an online tool to create a personalized version of your virtual self.

It’s official; we’re all freaks. If Pavlov were alive today, he’d hang the bell elsewhere to see if it would ring by the sound of a mouse click. Between 5 or 10 percent of Internet users, a recent study says, suffer from a form of Internet addiction.

We’ve often joked about it at the airport, but the signs were quite evident today. With the uncertain weather forecast, I arrived hoping to fly but expecting to do little more than update the airport database in my LX-5000 flight computer.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” — Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning