Blackberry 7100t Intimidates The Weak Hearted

I'm not usually intimidated by mobiles. But my blackberry 7100t software has me scared. It's not that I don't like it. On the contrary: I've grown quite attached to it. That's my problem.

There are three files from which I run my daily business life: my to-do list and phone log (In Control), my schedule (Now Up-to-Date), and my address book (FocalPoint and I don't want any flak about it, either). I didn't have any problem working with these files before. They lived on the IIfx in my office. I didn't take copies of them home with me. I rarely dialed in to the office network from home, and when I did, I treated these three critical files as read-only; I didn't modify them.

All that changed when I got a blackberry 7100t software Now I can work at home or in a hotel room as easily as I can at the IIfx in my office. Now I have two copies of my trinity of files, one set on my IIfx at work, the other on my 170. And they're different. I lack synchronicity.

For a while, I tried to remember to copy the files back and forth between my PowerBook and my IIfx whenever I left or returned to the office. But there were times when I'd leave the blackberry 7100t software at home with a modified copy of the trinity files on it and proceed to the office, where I would then modify the office copies of the same files. Or I'd be in a rush leaving the office, forget to copy the office-modified files to my blackberry 7100t software, and then work at home for a day or two, modifying the blackberry 7100t software files.

I didn't even have to leave the office to have the problem. The IIfx lives on my office desk. The PowerBook hangs out on a small conference table, also in my office. I have a network connection and a telephone in both locations. For a while, depending on where I was sitting when I listened to my incoming voice-mail messages, I might modify either copy of my phone-log file, or my schedule, or my address book.

And I might go back and forth between desk and conference table several times during the course of a day. Unless I copied the trinity files each time I modified them on either computer tedious at best I was chronically out of sync.

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