***Round-Up***

Internet over interest rates: PNC released a sleek, Web-based bank account with personal finance features called the Virtual Wallet. It is attracting more than a hundred new users (particularly "the finicky members of Generation Y," BusinessWeek reports in an atypically ageist tone) a day, even though the account offers not-so-great returns. That suggests that young people prefer Web-based financial usability even before financial benefit. (I am thinking perhaps the financial services will do more of both, as our generation will continue to want such things.)

Job X-it: I've been analyzing a lot how Generation X is more work-to-live than their predecessors the Baby Boomers. A recent article by Robert Wendover, director of The Center for Generational Studies, says Generation Xers might not be up for taking over the reins when Baby Boomers step away. I think this is another example of how future generations will transform the workplace. "Millions of those in their twenties and thirties grew up as latch-key kids in single-parent families due the high divorce rate and emergence of dual-career couples," Wendover writes. "They’re leery of being drawn into what they see as a never-ending cycle of long hours. If they don’t get a new car every year or have to wait on certain luxuries, so be it." I forgot about latch-key! I was one of those uncool kids with the stay-at-home Mom who never got to go.

Resume speed: I was trying to think of substantial commentary to say about those desperate people with their resumes on T-shirts and in taxis, but I don't have anything to say except "you people are getting on my nerves, and why are we still covering you in the media?" And it's even more annoying that their strategy works. Now, if you'll excuse me, my resume cookies are coming out of the oven.