Dancing on the Head of a Pin
Earlier in the week, Blackberry was down for the better part of a day and it was national news. The outage was said to affect over 80% of large companies in the U.S. Eight million subscribers had to actually talk to someone during the outage. It is reported, but not substantiated, that several people actually paid attention during company staff meetings.
Does anyone even remember handwriting? Cursive? That flowing style we struggled with in school, before everyone took to what I guess I would call speed printing? Who writes anymore? We type with our thumbs, Blackberrying back and forth, text-message on cell-phones and maybe whip off an actual e-mail from our computer. But write a letter? Not a chance.
Earlier in the week, Blackberry was down for the better part of a day and it was national news. The outage was said to affect over 80% of large companies in the U.S. Eight million subscribers had to actually talk to someone during the outage. It is reported, but not substantiated, that sev…