Crackberries

I found the recent Blackberry service outage and resulting chaos quite hilarious, but perhaps that's because I don't own/use/live off a Blackberry. It seemed funny that people could be so addicted to such a seemingly trivial thing. However, karma quickly wiped the smug smile off my face when it knocked out my internet for all of Wednesday and part of Thursday. How could I get any work done (I work from home)? How would I check my email (my friends might say something important)? How would I download Lost (what in the HECK is Juliet up to)? It was a rough day and a half, to say the least.

However, as someone who earns her baguettes and butter from guiding clients through the online world, it was somewhat reassuring to realize how important the internet has truly become. We can't live without internet access because we use it for work and play for a large percentage of the day. We need to look up the number for the pizza place and see their menu online before ordering. We want to look up what movie Sharon Stone and Billy Baldwin were in in the UB40 music video because it is just on the tip of our tongue but we can't quite remember. Or maybe that's just me. But when I look around, I definitely see and feel the internet everywhere. And I like it.