Technofile: Death to Overload

Vacation season is over, at least for us Northern Hemispherians, and it's depression city. Back to deadlines, hassling bosses and unrealised ambitions. Back to reality. You trudge into your all-too-familiar office, fire up your PC and click onto the e-mail. The heart rate accelerates dangerously. A billion or so e-mail messages, it seems, await. Next you log on to your business online service, through which you've set up an automated electronic clipping feature. The heart rate now reaches