Sarah reports her office park has a busybody who's made it her job to enforce the designated parking spaces. And she reports on how she got the woman back today. It's the little things in life that count.

Painter Girl reports there is no easy way to paint a decorative ceiling:

... I will say, on the days that I know I will be doing ceiling work, I also know I will be able to do very little when I get home from work. I am totally beat. I do have a neck brace that I sometimes wear when stenciling on a ceiling. When plastering, I feel I am working at a comfortable angle and moving quickly, so usually don't need the brace, but when stenciling, it's closer, tighter work, and I feel my neck stiffening up almost immediately. ... I know some decorative painters who build in the price of a massage with every ceiling job. ...

After her three-hole punch goes missing, again ("It's not uncommon for one of these guys to take my three hole punch back to their desk where they ALREADY HAVE ONE because theirs is full and they don't feel like emptying it. Seriously."), Sarah and a co-worker come up with the perfect protection.

Communications Workers of America say enough progress has been made in contract talks to keep working, Rand Wilson reports.

Greg MacKay photographed Verizon workers in Post Office Square as they got ready for a rally this evening in front of Verizon's New England headquarters. At issue: Their contract, which expires this weekend.

Or share an elevator with.

Bijan Sabet is impressed by a new search engine called Cuil for a couple of reasons. One is its technology (although David at Blue Mass. Group is completely non-impressed). But the other is the way the new site came about: It was built by some former Google engineers - and they could do that because they live in California, where non-compete agreements in contracts are against the law, unlike in Massachusetts:

... So CA entrepreneurs have more rights & flexability compared to entrepreuneurs in NYC or MA or WA etc.

California has it right. We need to give startups & entrepreneurs the ability to innovate without breaking any NDAs or trade secrets. But they should be able to compete fairly and openly. That is how innovation happens. ...

Interesting job posting.

Two headlines from today:

Boston Business Journal: Mass. unemployment rises, defying trend.
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce: State Adds 2,900 Jobs in June.

Kirsten is informed that's what she is; in turn, she critiques the film professor's performance in telling her that.