E-mail Noir

"My promiscuous relationships have also included corporate mail accounts, usually via Microsoft Outlook. But using Outlook is like sleeping with a hooker at a convention and sending the bill to your boss. There's no real pleasure to be found in Outlook, no intimacy, only relief. Outlook exists to satisfy your corporate manager and the freaks down at IT, not you or me." (Jack Shafer, Slate.com)

Ha! I'm thinking some therapy might be in order, Jack. Read the entire piece here. It's quite cleverly written.