{"id":735,"date":"2006-12-21T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=735"},"modified":"2006-12-21T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:48:00","slug":"of-all-the-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2006-12\/735-of-all-the-fruit","title":{"rendered":"Of all the fruit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to hate the BLACKBERRY most!<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t really send detailed e-mails because the screen is so tiny it is difficult to read them. And it isn&#8217;t the best functioning telephone I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t the most efficient way to do most things.<\/p>\n<p>Her .sig on e-mails concludes with:<br \/>\n<i>Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I now conclude MY messages with:<br \/>\n<b>NOT sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device since I don&#8217;t have one but I imagine it must be difficult to read long e-mails on them so I&#8217;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.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;t really send &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2006-12\/735-of-all-the-fruit\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}