Need to take a break from work? Try a timer on your computer or phone that reminds you to smell the roses. Seamus Byrne is CNET's Editor for Australia and Asia. At other times he'll be found messing ...

This morning (Thursday, June 9) many of us were in synagogue in observance of the second day of Shavuot, which is also one of our four Yizkor (memorial) days in the Jewish calendar. We recite Yizkor ...