The Blackberry Kerfuffle

As was noted in the comments section to yesterday's post, my blackberry problem was not isolated. Rather, there was a systemwide network interruption, causing many psychos like me much angst.

Millions of Blackberry batteries were removed and re-inserted, many tens of times, in the hope that this low tech solution would work (as it often does). Thousands of IT departments were disparaged by Type A executives who were forced to go cold turkey. Only later did the word get out that it was not an internal problem but a systemic one.

A cute story from yesterday when service was restored mid morning. Many of the people in my office were attending a conference with about 150 people. When service was restored, a loud din of buzzing started and didn't stop. Problem was, it was in the middle of a panel discussion. (And, of course, from that moment on, everyone began checking their emails). I can't even imagine how distracting that must have been to the panelists.