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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Thursday, January 30, 2003

THE LEFT LANE
Handy reminder for the gratuity-impaired

Advertiser Staff and News Services

Dine out often? Can't quickly calculate a 15 percent or 20 percent tip? Help has arrived in the form of the Tip Assist, a tally at the end of your charge slip that conveniently specifies, down to the penny, what a 15 percent, 18 percent or 20 percent tip would amount to based on your total bill.


Googlism is ... a site for random fun

Not that we need another way to goof off at work, but Google has launched yet another variation of its endlessly entertaining Net-searching service. Googlism (www.googlism.com) is the latest Google spin-off. Enter the name of a person, place or thing, and Googlism will scan active Web pages in a sort of ultra-random poll to see what the Internet "thinks" about your item of inquiry. The results resemble an elementary-school poem with each line starting with "(Your subject) is ... ."

For example, by asking Googlism what it thinks of Gov. Linda Lingle, you get responses that range from the laudatory ("linda lingle is the best hope for Hawaii") to the intriguing ("linda lingle is a two"), from the bizarre ("linda lingle is the daughter and niece of car") to the existential ("linda lingle is and what she stands for"). Have fun, but don't tell your boss where you read this.


Sorting tricky issue of workplace fashion

It seems that workplace fashion is tied to the economy. When the economy soars, dress codes plunge into the chill-out zone. When times are tough, people tend to dress as if their lives (or at least their jobs) depend on it. To help sort through the confusion of office dressing, Kim Johnson Gross and Jeff Stone, co-founders of Chic Simple, a leading style authority, provide readers with hundreds of tips and tricks-of-the-trade for creating a winning career wardrobe in their new books "Dress Smart Men" and "Dress Smart Women," available in bookstores.

They answer common questions such as: What are the standard items any professional should have in the closet? What can workers get away with on casual Fridays? What do work clothes say about us, from tweed versus navy blazers, to skirts versus pants, to color versus black?

Of course, business attire in Hawai'i needs to be taken down a notch from their recommendations, but the guidelines are helpful nevertheless.