Employees waste two days per month surfing the Internet at work.

"irrelevant Web browsing." Known as "wilfing," and apparently people are wasting two days a month at work doing it.

 

Tens of millions of Internet users waste time surfing online at work and at home. And one-quarter of those time wasters spend as much as 33 percent of their time doing it.

 

There's a generation gap, too – those aged 25 and under were three times as likely to wilf away the hours as those over 55.

 

Wilf stands for "What was I looking for?" – as in "I went online to look up stock prices for the boss but found this really funny story at the Onion.com. And did you see that editorial at the Monitor site about Iraq? And then there was a super deal on iPods at apple.com, and I had to buy a few tunes when I was there … ah, hmmm, what was I looking for?"

 

"It's part of what I call the rise of the miscellaneous," he writes in an e-mail.

 

"The big disadvantage is that we get lost all the ... time," Weinburger continues. "It's artificial befuddlement, but we're being befuddled by abundance. That strikes me as better than never being able to lose your way because there's such a scarcity of ways to go." … now what was I doing again?