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One of the highlights of the weekend trip was dinner at Lucca, a fabulous Boston North End Italian restaurant. Check out the restaurant site, and stop by if you are ever in the neighborhood. Recommended.

Kind of got this song stuck in my head this weekend, "Somebody Told me" by The Killers.

I saw 2 movies this weekend: Superman Returns and The Devil Wears Prada. Both fun, and pretty decent movies. Routh and Bosworth do OK in Superman, and Streep and Hathaway well above average in The Devil, delivering a funny, sophisticated and very entertaining comedy.

This is sort of a follow up to the post a few weeks back about multi-tasking. Earlier this year a UC Irvine study found something I've long suspected: on average a worker can focus for just 11 minutes at a time before being interrupted (by email, a co-worket, etc.) and is unable to refocus again for another 25 minutes (!)

Researchers have calculated that interruptions consume an average of 2.1 hours of every working day, or 28% of the average person's routine. It has reached such an extent that workers are becoming locked in what was described as a mire of multi-tasking.

The report, The Cost of Not Paying Attention, was written by a research team headed by Gloria Mark and Victor Gonzalez. You can read more details on UC Irvine's site.