Of all the fruit…

I’m beginning to hate the BLACKBERRY most!

We have a friend who uses one of these things for work. It is her ONLY communications device. She has no home phone, and no other computer at home. You can’t really send detailed e-mails because the screen is so tiny it is difficult to read them. And it isn’t the best functioning telephone I’ve encountered. Half of the time we have trouble hearing her, or vice-versa, and you end up doubling the length of your conversation because you have to repeat everything you say because you have to repeat everything you say.

I liken it to using a Swiss Army Knife (the deluxe model, of course, with ALL the gadgets) as your only tool. Yes it will get the job done, but it isn’t the most efficient way to do most things.

Her .sig on e-mails concludes with:
Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device

I now conclude MY messages with:
NOT sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device since I don’t have one but I imagine it must be difficult to read long e-mails on them so I’ll keep this message relatively short to make it easier for you to deal with what it is that I have to say at the moment.