My work uses email for everything, I work on the Health industry and I communicate with several people in different countries and time zones, doing it by phone or chat will be almost impossible.

If I check at work at 7:00AM I usually start reading emails from people that are in Europe and Asia, it will be almost impossible to get in touch with me in the middle of the morning for them unless is an emergency, the beauty of email is that the moment you sit and try to write your thoughts you start to realize whats important and what is just anxiety, I have even noticed that people tend to write in simple words their most extreme problems that helps them and me to actually see what I need to do to be able to comply with their request.

I specially see this in Latino countries (I am Mexican) when phone calls tend to drag a lot on unnecessary chit-chat that only takes time and wont contribute anything to the discussion (endless weather, economic, nonsense chat).

Of course one thing that helps me is to either give an instant answer to their problem or just to shoot a quick reply that you saw their request and that you will fix it ASAP.

Also email helps you to see a history of the conversations without the blah added to them.

My personal email is a different beast, I usually receive the chain mail email, spam and other stuff but I don't need to respond immediately if something is discussed that actually needs my attention (get together, dinner parties etc) the moment you treat work email as work and not as a social gathering you will see that is a really nice work tool.

Please erase it I just read about her death today, there is already a note about it from last week.

Thanks.

Last week I got a call from a lady with a Colombian accent, I never really figure what they were trying to sell me but I started the conversation stating that they were doing a scam.

She got really angry and at some point one of her coworkers even got to the phone and said that they were part of a Drug Cartel, after that it was hysterical.

I did the usual genetic jokes ("I hope you dont get marry and pass your genes to the genetic pool") and stuff like that, my record was 25 min, and at some point I got disconnected, and the lady called again because she wanted to continue the fight.

At the end I told her that I was a church ministry and got her praying with me on the phone and she promised that she will change jobs.

(I am not a church ministry but that should have been a really expensive call from Colombia to Mexico)

If you believe the latest gossip on the tabloids he may start flirting with some boys too.

I am going to tell you a true story regarding companies and stolen goods.

I brough a Wii 2 years ago, and after 6 months somebody broke into my house and stole it.

I tough well I will contact Nintendo and will let them know that it has been stolen so that they can have a note in the system in case the thief will bring it down to repairs or something like that.

Wrote an email to their customer service, stating the serial number and my name, guess what was their response?

"Sorry but thats not our problem we cant help you if they want to make a warranty valid we will honor it"

Not their exact words but I am to lazy to search for the email at the moment.

So I tried to inform them that my product was stolen and that if they received it for service just refuse it to do it but they didnt care about it.

I am not blaming nintendo its true its not their problem, but if Alienware is doing this I am not sure that their motive is to protect their customer, it has to do with greed and the fact that they didnt got to sell the product to the client directly.

Just my 2 cents.

I agree that finding a Computer game that you can play at the same time is a little difficult, on the other hand there are several console games that are specifically designed to play against another person.

In my experience my GF hates games, with the exception of solitary and card games, but she started playing Tekken 4 with me and now she really likes to play that one.

Now I havent tried another game (I play mostly RPGs) but I believe that if I will find another title that enable us to play at the same time she will play it with me.