Instant messaging at work

How do you do instant messaging at work?

Here, we just use email.  Corporate Outlook / Exchange is fast and already open, and the conversation can expand to a "proper" mail conversation without having to change app.  Ours is not the only workplacea, though, and I'm interested to see if anyone actually uses an IM client.

Splatmap: Bike casualties for 2007

Here's a thing: the Times Online took the UK statistics for bike crashes (reported to the police, and where injuries were reported - ie, serious ones) and made a map  (here it is fullscreen).  I can name the ones on my commute, and you won't be surprised to hear that unthinking, speeding, dangerous idiot drivers were involved in 'em.

Don't let this deter you.  Treat it as a reminder to stay sharp.  We are mammals in the age of dinosaurs: quick, smart, and destined to inherit the earth -- but also squishy.  Whiteladies and the Gloucester Road in Bristol aren't really gutters of blood.  :)

And if you feel the urge to get campaignin', Roadpeace are the org who challenge Britain's casual acceptance of this carnage.