Office Romance Rules: See what to do and what not

For those who are dating a fellow co-worker, the consensus among experts is to proceed with caution, because such relationships are fraught with complications. Yet despite their warnings, they also concede that romance in the workplace can work -- many of them last and studies show that between 22 to 50 percent of workplace romances lead to marriage.

In fact, work is the number-one meeting ground where people find their spouses, says sociologist Janet Lever, Ph.D. This is especially so for high-powered professionals who spend 40 to 60 hours a week at the office; whose long working hours make it extremely difficult to find love.

They turn to the workplace in search for their potential partners. In a way, some feel it's a safer alternative to blind dates and dating services because when you date someone in the workplace, at least you already know something about him or her. Because of your shared history, you don't have to start with a blank slate.

But to make office romance work, it takes the right steps to manage the relationship well, to navigate potentially delicate situations and to avoid the pitfalls. So if you're involved, check out these do's and don'ts of office romance ettiquette.

Office romance ettiquette
1. DO: Keep work separate from personal issues
It takes two well-balanced people who are mature enough to respect the distinctive roles of lover and colleague. Both you and the guy need to come to an agreement that you're not going to let emotions affect your work.

2. DO: Establish the ending rules
Make a rule about what you are going to do if and when the relationship comes to an end. Couples should agree that they will not do anything to try to hurt the other in the workplace.

3. DON'T: Broadcast your relationship
Keep it quiet for as long as possible and maintain a very professional relationship at work. It's exciting when you're in love, but if the romance goes sour and everyone knows about it, there's going to be a lot of office gossip and you'll become the fodder.

Amazon in talks to start books-on-demand subscription service

Amazon already dominates book sales, whether they be paper or digital. It also has a very firm grasp on the e-reader market with millions of Kindles already sold. But Amazon is apparently not satisfied with just selling digital books to Kindle owners, it wants to offer a subscription service for them too.

If you use Netflix to stream videos for a monthly fee, Amazon believes you’ll pay a subscription to gain access to a large library of digital books too. The e-tailer is thought to be in talks with several book publishers trying to sign them up to such a service.

In return for paying each publisher a healthy fee, Amazon would be able to offer access to potentially thousands of titles as part of a rental/download service. Users would pay a monthly subscription for the privilege of access, or potentially it could form part of the existing Amazon Prime $79/year service.

This isn’t a new idea, and it’s one publisher O’Reilly is already seeing a lot of success with through its Safari Books Online service. However, Safari is aimed squarely at the technology market and costs either $27.99 or $42.99 per month depending on your level of access. I’d expect Amazon would have to be a lot cheaper, closer to Netflix pricing in fact, if such a subscription service was to take off.

More at WSJ, via TNW

Matthew’s Opinion

As a Kindle owner I do find that the price of Kindle editions is on the high side for the books I want. I’m sure this is more down to the publisher than it is Amazon who would happily sell digital books cheaper if it meant higher sales and more revenue.

With that in mind, I would definitely consider a subscription service if it was priced like Netflix and offered up access to all Kindle books. That second prerequisite is key. I don’t believe such a service would work if you could only access some books. It also wouldn’t work if new releases aren’t included, unless of course they could be purchased at a discount or arrived on the service within say, a month of the release.

Are you Aware Of This Dangrous MAC Trojan Virus

Look out, Apple users: There's another Mac OS X Trojan out in the wild, and it might be heading your way.


The sneaky malware pretends to a be a Chinese-language PDF document about the Pinnacle Islands, eight uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea simultaneously claimed by Japan, Taiwan and mainland China.

If you open the file, which could appear as an emailed attachment or as a Web link, the document, written in traditional Chinese ideograms, does indeed display. But a Trojan silently installs itself in the background as you try to sort out centuries-old territorial claims.

The Trojan doesn't really do anything — yet. But F-Secure, the Finnish security firm that discovered it, notes that it lays the groundwork for much more sophisticated attacks against Macs.

The Trojan installs "backdoor" software to give a remote operator control of the machine, and sets up a communication link with a currently inactive command-and-control server.

Those two steps, repeated in thousands of Macs, could create a Mac-only botnet — a vast army of "zombie" machines silently distributing malware and spam. Substitute an English-language document for global appeal, flip on the command-and-control server, and you're in business.

The growing market penetration of Macs in the worldwide PC market, coupled with the general cluelessness of Mac owners about the need for anti-virus software, has created a ripe field of millions of powerful, unprotected machines ready for exploitation by cyber criminals.

And for a cyber criminal, the best kind of botnet to run would be one comprised of machines whose owners think they'll never be infected.

Fortunately, anti-virus companies are here to help. F-Secure's paid Mac anti-virus software has already incorporated protection against this Mac-only Trojan, as has Sophos' free one.

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A few moments ago, Nike officially unveiled the Nike Air Mag AKA “Marty McFly” shoe. As stated earlier, Nike announced that 1500 pairs of this shoe will be auctioned on eBay, nikemag.eBay.com, with all net proceeds going directly to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. The auction will begin tonight at 8:30PM PST and end on September 18 (150 pairs will be posted on eBay per day for 10 days). The Nike Air Mag has been anticipated for the longest as it first showed its face in the 1989 2015 released film Back to the Future.