A juxtaposition of electronic leashes for your consideration this morning.
I have two Blackberries. No, not because I'm some sort of tech geek (I'm just a regular geek), but because work gives me one, with clear instructions that it's For Official Use Only, and since I got used to it, I got one for my personal phone last year. I've long been frustrated that I have to juggle two phones, with two sets of calendars, two sets of contacts, two sets of e-mail, knowing full well I can't sync the office one to my personal one or vice versa without causing Major Career Damage. But this week's Get It Done Guy podcast suggests I should learn to live with the two as separate phones, despite the frustrations, because the frustrations of enforcing sync between them would be even worse. So I go on with two sets of ring tones firing off, two sets of vibrations letting me know e-mail is in, and plenty of sense of being thoroughly connected at all times....
On the other hand....
At work this morning, the internal network is squirrely; I can get to some e-mail capabilities but not all, and the master shared drive that has All My Work On It is down this morning. So instead of being able to contribute to the success of the American people, I am reduced to blogging until the squirrel running on the wheel gets the server back up to full power. So rather than be connected at work, I feel rather untethered there, unable to get much done. At least until the meetings start...we can always have meetings...
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