Christmas has arrived and I wish everyone a fantastic holiday break. Hopefully you are surrounded my friends and family. If you’re browsing for something to read this crisp, food-filled day, I recommend the following posts. Cheers!

Modern Worker Week in Review - Blogosphere Santa Edition

Holidays Have You Feeling Tired? 5 Tips for Amazing Weekend Sleep

Reboot Your Morning Routine - The Night Before

Start Your Day with Mental Stretches

How to Make and Keep New Year’s Resolutions - Bonus 10 Easy Goals for 2008

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A warm hello to newcomers and subscribers. Returning from a productive break outside of the Internet, it’s ModWork’r riding back up over the horizon again. I’m excited to be celebrating this thing we all call self-improvement because 2008 is not too far off and it’s a perfect time to focus on better both our business and personal.

Tomorrow morning (Thursday) will see the first of many new articles which I’ve been authoring over the past couple weeks. I encourage you to jump into the growing conversations here on Modern-Worker.com by commenting with your thoughts, ideas and feedback.

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Here at Modern Worker headquarters, it’s been a busy past week! Ok, there’re no official HQs, however I have been focusing on some professional advancements. Not to fear though, as I have drafted some helpful posts which will begin to appear Monday, along with a new radio show episode. “Woot!”

Wishing you all the best in your work and personal life,

ModWork’r

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UPDATE: I thank Elizabeth for leaving a comment and apologizing for the message. If every employee of Cox were as well-spoken and responsible as she seems to be; the company would thrive a lot more

Cox Enterprises is despised by thousands, possibly millions of Internet users through the U.S. due to their horrifically flawed customer service efforts (or rather, lack thereof) and extremely poor quality of product. Anyone who has gone through the “Cox nightmare” with cable Internet, television, and/or phone service knows full well of the frustration and pain inflicted by Cox Communications onto their subscribers.

Luckily, I was able to make the move away from their horrible cable Internet service a few years back but the disrespect I was dealt through sheer idiocy will not soon leave my memory. When someone has to generally spend 5-10 hours a week on the phone with their ISP, it’s a wicked tale of anger spawned from handling the appalling ineptitude of Cox Communications employees.

Fast forward to the present, where I’m running Modern-Worker.com and have taken part in Blog Action Day. I shouldn’t be too surprised, but Cox found a way to come back and haunt me. How, you ask? SPAM.

Somehow, Cox Enterprises (which owns the tarnished Cox Communications) obtained my e-mail address and sent me an unpersonalized pre-fabbed e-mail which clearly qualifies as spam. Without further delay, here is the e-mail in all it’s canned ham shame…

Name: liz

Email: elizabeth.******@coxinc.com

Subject: Green Tips

Message: I work for Cox Enterprises and saw that you participated in
Blog Action Day. I thought you might be interested in visiting
www.CoxConserves.com. The site details Cox’s commitment to the
environment and offers tips on how anyone can become eco-friendly.

Now I ask you; has anyone else received a spam message from Cox?

UPDATE: I thank Elizabeth for leaving a comment and apologizing for the message. If every employee of Cox were as well-spoken and responsible as she seems to be; the company would thrive a lot more

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Out with the old and in with the new…design. You might have noticed the weekly radio show has been napping for the past couple weeks. This is because I have been spending my extra time on formulating a new design here, which takes elements from the old layout but incorporates a better color scheme and hopefully more intuitive flow when reading.

I’ve love to hear you feedback on what you like about the current blog design here and what you feel can be improved. I spend the time and effort on these types of things here at modern-worker.com to continually provide an optimal reading experience for you, my readers.

I thank you for your loyalty thus far and am committed to providing quality content that sparks personal development in the tech-centric workplace.

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