This factoid from The New York Times caught my attention while I was reading the paper while travelling along at 450 miles per hour. Fortunately for all concerned, I was not driving.

In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages.

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Sometimes when the work of marketing gets you down, and it feels like a thankless task, what you really need to do is get out of the office, out into the word. You know, that place where customers live? And sometimes, when you get there, you see that what you've been doing is making a difference in a positive way.

Yesterday, I had just such an opportunity. Product Manager Ennio Carboni (author of the fine Daily Network Monitor blog), Sales Engineer Dan Donnelly and I went to Network World's IT Roadmap conference in downtown Boston. Ennio delivered a talk what I'll discuss in more detail, and Dan and I took on the glamorous job of working the booth.

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This is what I get for not posting daily, or perhaps what you get for not reading daily. Lots of interesting stuff going on here at Ipswitch this month, two tidbits happen to be Network World related.

Plug the First: We're going to be at the kickoff event for the IT Roadmap Technology Conference & Expo tomorrow at Boston's own Hynes Convention Center. Drop by to meet Ennio Carboni of our Daily Network Monitor blog and take in a demo of WhatsUp Gold version 11. Take the tunnel at your own risk.

Plug the Second: Ipswitch founder and CEO Roger Greene appears in today's Face-Off column in Network World, taking the view that you shouldn't trust your network to open source. Roger and Tarus Balog, CEO of OpenNMS Group respecfully disagreed in print and also cut a podcast that's just the right length to listen to during your morning run. Check it out.

Tune in tomorrow for photos and a recap from IT Roadmap. Until then, a free copy of WS_FTP Professional to the first one who can tell me who created the object pictured in this post, and a free copy of WS_FTP Professional with a service agreement to the one who can tell me who created it and where it's located. Write me at dkarp[at]ipswitch[dotcom]

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