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Pilot fish is hired by a small company that does work for a larger IT vendor. She's assigned to be the contact person dealing with this vendor on a job that's already in progress -- though no one seems to know what it is.

Fewer leisure travelers are booking online, because they're frustrated by online travel sites. Looks like human travel agents aren't becoming extinct after all.

New Microsoft President of Online Services Qi Lu has given his first public interview, and it shows that the division may be headed in the wrong direction. Lu is taking dead aim at Google search, when he should instead be focusing on creating new services focused around Office and other Microsoft products. Microsoft will never catch Google, but it has a considerable lead it can build on when it comes to applications.

In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch Microsoft offer SaaS-hosted Exchange, Sharepoint, and OCS to all. Not to mention a cooler Google Android phone...

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- Bank branch offices are obsolete. Still, many of us are forced by the medieval mindset of financial institutions to drive across town week after week and stand in line so we transmit binary data to banks via dead tree pulp (i.e. paychecks). Fear not -- help is on the way.

Imagine you wake up one morning to start your job search. You visit the ever popular Monster.com only to end up be attacked by malware. Unfortunately for Monster.com, hackers apparently have had their way by injecting malicious IFrame code into part of the Monster.com Website. Monster reacted quickly by shutting down those infected parts but this does bring up the topic of Website security. When it comes to organizations instituting sound security practices, Websites unfortunately sometimes take a back seat.

I like it when I see teachers making use of technology in the classroom when ever possible. The state of Florida has just approved an online reading program called Free-Reading and it'll allow Florida teachers free access starting this fall. While they're not getting rid of conventional textbooks, this program should be a nice supplement and/or alternative to those tomes.

I couldn't wait to show this press release "Link between online gaming and violence killed off" to my teenaged son - although I think he's already relaxed.  Apparently psychologists at Middlesex University asked online gamers (between 12 and 83 years old) to answer some questions relating to personality, anger and aggression both before and after playing World of Warcraft for two hours.