OK', OK. I'll admit it. Even though I've been in the tech field for decades -- wrote my first machine language code in the early 80s, Microsoft Assembler, C, C++, Linux kernel hacking, etc. -- I have been something of a troglodyte when it comes to cell phones. Being on call all the time for so many years made me actually hate the damn things. When I got a cell phone I just wanted something to do the bare essentials and LEAVE ME ALONE!
But, my bride in her lovely and infinite wisdom decided recently that it looked bad for someone running in the corporate tech circles that I do to be carrying a silly flip phone when the corporate standards are still the BlackBerry (I know, all the cool people are on the iPhone or something else). Anyway, I now have my BlackBerry and guess what? I can't imagine why I resisted. The resistance is gone!
Not only do I have two email services feeding it -- notifications from my personal account and from the account I use for this blog -- I also now have the Big Book on the thing. Not only the Big Book, but all the revisions since the first publication, all the stories from previous versions, version comparisons, a copy of the original and 4th edition versions, etc. I can read, bookmark, annotate, make notes...
I know I'm still behind the curve on the cell phone/multimedia front, but damn if I might not catch up!
