Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Friday, February 5, 2010

Mixed feelings...


I have mixed feelings about technology, though it permeates our lives. Just recently, I posted on a fab blog about my thoughts on Kindle...I say "nay".

~each day, I am vitually tied to my "blueberry" (as I call it). The initial reason for our relationship, the berry's and mine, was the nature of my job and the need to stay in touch with clients who may be facing emergency situations. Vetting my business emails on the berry also helps me manage them better - yes, I agree...the berry helps me...
but over time, the excuse that I needed it for work no longer worked...now I respond to every bing and bong and feel compelled to check who is pinging and blinking...I now have a "berry dependancy"

~then there is the dictaphone, the digital wonder which lets me "communicate" with my there-is-no-one-like-her Carolyn (my law clerk)....here I am, driving to or from the office, dictating away.....

~and then, of course, there is the laptop, which has become an extension of me...I am afraid to go into how much time I spend on it...

~the official gig, when I moved to the country to live with the big-K, was that neither of us would spend time on technology in the evenings or on weekend...ya, right!! Now he has a blackberry too (he had to give in at work) and we are both attached to our laptops..

~the other night, I realized that technology is now a part of me, even when I prepare to go out for the evening and put in mascara....my ipod is close-by.....
I am still fighting it - I think there is a balance to be struck
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