Luddites Unite!
BlackBerry outages spread to North America
BlackBerry users across the world were exasperated Wednesday as an outage of email, messaging and Internet services on the phones spread to the U.S. and Canada and stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
Gotta wonder what this will do to the various Occupiers?
If we’re lucky it’ll bring government to a standstill?
Hmm…
Category: Geezer Alert!, General Whackos
I actually don’t mind it too much, since it gives me an excuse to stand down at night. But the minute a bad comment shows up at my company blog, it will be my ass in a sling.
Heh!
The more I type, or peck when it comes to texting, the worse my penmanship becomes.
Maybe it’s a good thing the network craps out. That way TSO and Jonn won’t see their beloved El Cid get crushed October 29th.
I left the office with no new messages in my inbox…not a peep on the Blackberry all the way home. I get in the house, pull up my work email and there were 18 messages, half wanting to know why I wasn’t answering my Blackberry.
Hmmm…..I wonder if the idiot who threatened to shut down Wall St might have got the wrong database name?
I can’t see the Occupy folks as blackberry types-too rigid and corporate America. Iphones are at least from liberal corporate America.
#5. Exactly. Blackberry has long been a “tool” of the working class, to allow them to do things, like work. Something I am sure the occupiers know little about.
Gotta wonder what this will do to the various Occupiers?
Well, in L.A. the mayor will probably hand out “free” iPhones so they’re not inconvenienced.
hey y’all … I like my iphone. I can’t use it at work because of regs but tha’s cool. If someone wants me at work they can call me on my workphone, if they want me at my home phone, they can wait until I leave work and get their voicemail. I don’t go App crazy either like some do.
My phone is ONLY a phone.
I take text messages only if something or someone is in crisis.
The only computer I interact with is sitting on my desk. I ignore whatever computer functions there may be in my car, phone, radio, television, and toothbrush.
I still write letters and send cards.
And yes…my favorite piece of furniture is my rocking chair.
iphones, blackberries, dingleberries-schmingleberries. I don’t think I could even define “app”, let alone know what to do with one if I found it. I did, one time, do a lot of riding on an “Appie”,(formally known as an “Appaloosa”). When my stick phone died a year ago, I upgraded to a flip phone. Way to modern for me. I take and answer calls, even have a few numbers in it, but by and large use none of its features other than that.
Hope no one sells their kids or puts a second mortgage on their home over this.
PN #8: My cell phone is, in a word, primitive. I genuinely do not know how to read a text message on the thing. It does support an external antenna.
OTOH I don’t dismiss others who choose to invest in the technology.
Aside: I wouldn’t have an Apple product in my ass if had room for a windmill. Long story best shared elsewhere.
So FO and Zero are dinosaurs. Imagine that. Now, if Monday Night Football were to get blipped, would that lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs?
#11 Well, Zero, I have to confess…I did recently get a digital camera. AND, I even learned how to download pictures from it to my computer. That’s about my top speed, however. I do actually admire folks who are able to interface with all the latest and greatest; I just don’t have the “memory” for it, apparently.
[powering down, now…]
DaveO #12: Can’t speak for FO, but I kinda like the dinosaur comparison. Changes my notion of being cremated and having my ashes dumped in the septic tank.
Imagine… My bones being studied down-time?
PN #13: I can empathize. But I am a geek. Did the camera thing,etc. I have worked for NASA, and made a living writing code. Maybe if someone comes up with a better name for cell phones I could feel differently.
Or… I’m a real Luddite. [shrug]
@13 PN “Well, Zero, I have to confess…I did recently get a digital camera. AND, I even learned how to download pictures from it to my computer”
HA, I used to have a 35mm film camera with some medium range lenses. When film went out of stock, I made a promise to myself to buy myself a digital camera as soon as they figured out how to attach standard lenses to digital cameras … daggone if they didn’t figure it out. True to my word, I bought a digital camera and then had to buy some newer higher power lenses … it’s a blast but I’m always in a learning curve because, as you say, my ‘memory’ is too short. Now if I could just remember where I put that durn camera?????
Yeah, I’ve got a smart phone (LG). No, I don’t use it to be more efficient, check my e-mail, etc., all of which I do, of course.
No, the real reason I have it? Two words:
Angry Birds.
I just got a smartphone last Friday (Samsung Epic/Android). I check my email and have used the internet a little. I’ve added a few apps (yes, fb, though I don’t look at it a lot; a couple useful tools: one for helping me keep track of my calorie intake and another to help me track time & distance for exercising outside; and one to help me keep up with all the military ranks since I volunteer a lot with Soldiers’ Angels and don’t know all of them (better with the Army ones, since Dad was Army…). It’s a battery hog, though…