I am lucky, I can work from wanywhere in the world with a laptop and a mobile phone - but doesn't mean I like to. I travel a lot for the company, and yes it is great - but it does drain you a lot. For example I drove home last night at 2am, normally I would check my email then go to bed. This is on any day of the week.
Anyway, this week I picked up a Blackberry from Scancom.co.uk, something I have always thought about having but only just got. Even though I have an M2000 - I find it a pain to use. I get about 200 emails a day sometimes a lot more. I have to say, since getting this Blackberry it has changed my life - and it has only been 4 days. I no longer need to hit a PC to get my email - I already know whats in my inbox. Take for example today, HEXUS got hit by a Slashdot, I was at the Supermarket, I got an email about the influx and actioned it before I got home. Normally, I would have a call to say something has gone wrong.
So now I am in an interesting situation, I have before happily left my house with my notebook and my phone - now all I need is one device, the Blackberry - simple huh?
If you are not familiar with the devices they seem to be getting very popular, RIM have developed a solution which pushes the emails without attachments to your handset, instead of setting it to send and recieve or having to request them.
So, I am off to Paris on Tuesday - I won't take my notebook, I will have my Blackberry which I can deal with all my emails on - and my phone, if that is it's lucky.
I have to be in touch - and without these tools it would be harder. Slowly I see myself disconnecting from the digital world, that is, until it calls me.


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