by Richard
From the department of the completely, patently, obviously obvious: Computers, while an occasional boon to mankind, can really ruin your day. The more important the information, the more likely it is that you’ll have some sort of major mess on your hands.
Case in point (which allows me to use some more colons. Whee!): my Blackberry.
Here’s the deal. (Almost went with colon there, but I decided to let ya’ll off the hook.) I bought a Blackberry because I probably couldn’t remember something without help if my life depended on it. It’s so nice to have a calendar attached to my hips at all times and to have it bleep and blatt when I’m supposed to be doing something. It helps me to know just exactly it is that I’m in the process of missing. (A famous author, Douglas Adams, once said, “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Hey, steal from the best.)
Anyway. Not to get off the point here. (Too late!) The reason for this rant is that I just tried to back up the Blackberry with the first version of the Blackberry desktop manager for Mac. It did not go well.
I lost the internet browser on the phone, a number of contacts and who knows how many actual appointments in the process. FSM only knows where I’m going to be the next time Zippy the Monkey Boy has a follow-up orthodontist appointment.
Even as I type, I’m still trying to set things right. I’ve got the stupid phone hooked up to the stupid computer and they’re trying to talk to each other, each convinced they’re right and the other is wrong. I wonder who’s the real stupid? Hmmm. I are thinking it could be me.
So, yeah, make sure you’ve got your important data saved before you try something like this. Now I’ve go to go to the little dudes and ask them if they had anything coming up. You know that’s not going to finish well.
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