Freakin' Blackberries...
Yes, freakin' Blackberries. And I'm not referring to the lovely seedy berry that I cherish eating (but not picking in the wild, I'll be getting my berries from the store you know what I'm saying) every Spring and Summer. Apparently the parties in the Blackberry dispute have settled... for $612.5 million USD!!!!
I read a report that stated Blackberry new user consumption was only at 620,000 for their Q4 reports instead of the estimated 750,000. Oh goodness! Someone quick, call my broker up so that I may be one of the joiners of the Blackberry Revolution!
Ok ok, you got me. I have been told that Blackberries (er....Crackberries, right? Am I right?) were very helpful for major events such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. That's great, I'm not here to say ALL Blackberries are evil, it isn't even the device itself that I am frustrated by, it is the people who use the Blackberries... I was discussing this with Joe, Andrew and of course Chris, probably over some double-deck pinochle and one too many Diet Pepsis (brown and bubbly, what kind of a tag line is that?). The Blackberry Phenomena is the next cell phone nuisance but coming at us with greater speed than anything else. Where I work, we don't endorse Blackberry usage officially since it doesn't run on Microsoft software. So it annoys me to no end when there are people in the office who whip out their Blackberries during meetings and conference calls when you know that the probability of the message being work-related is nil. Now in public, sure go ahead, do the Blackberry Prayer--but again, such as in the movie theater seeing the screens light up or the little beeping that someone just "forgot to turn off" whether it be from a Blackberry or not...........
AAAAAAAAAaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!
I digress. Maybe I should just shut up and go and conform and try one out--just to see if they are as great as everyone says they are.
This weekend should be an exciting one--we are going to participate in another Curling Bonspiel! Here's to not falling and having a great time.
I read a report that stated Blackberry new user consumption was only at 620,000 for their Q4 reports instead of the estimated 750,000. Oh goodness! Someone quick, call my broker up so that I may be one of the joiners of the Blackberry Revolution!
Ok ok, you got me. I have been told that Blackberries (er....Crackberries, right? Am I right?) were very helpful for major events such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. That's great, I'm not here to say ALL Blackberries are evil, it isn't even the device itself that I am frustrated by, it is the people who use the Blackberries... I was discussing this with Joe, Andrew and of course Chris, probably over some double-deck pinochle and one too many Diet Pepsis (brown and bubbly, what kind of a tag line is that?). The Blackberry Phenomena is the next cell phone nuisance but coming at us with greater speed than anything else. Where I work, we don't endorse Blackberry usage officially since it doesn't run on Microsoft software. So it annoys me to no end when there are people in the office who whip out their Blackberries during meetings and conference calls when you know that the probability of the message being work-related is nil. Now in public, sure go ahead, do the Blackberry Prayer--but again, such as in the movie theater seeing the screens light up or the little beeping that someone just "forgot to turn off" whether it be from a Blackberry or not...........
AAAAAAAAAaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!
I digress. Maybe I should just shut up and go and conform and try one out--just to see if they are as great as everyone says they are.
This weekend should be an exciting one--we are going to participate in another Curling Bonspiel! Here's to not falling and having a great time.
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posted by Jonell at
7:27 PM
1 Comments:
Preach. It's the same thing we went through when cell phones first became mass-commercialized (or rather, affordable, which I still don't think they are... who would pay $400 for a cell phone?!). Now it's become taboo for anyone to talk on a cell phone in a meeting, or in the theaters, or wherever. Good... but my philosophy on blackberries is: if you wouldn't talk on a cell phone because it's inappropriate at the time, you shouldn't use your blackberry for the same reason.
Freakin' Blackberries.
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