Email Alerts
Mobile email alerts are great. I can immediately correspond, but at my leisure. I am able to delete an email from Boyds about shirts i can't afford, archive a bank statement proving i can't afford the shirts, and then read an email about a happy hour special I'll miss because I'll still be at work.
Cynical example aside, my blackberry gmail application is great for real emails, providing I can check the emails in a timely fashion. So this past week, my Edge network has decided to take a vacation, leaving me in a desolate world of internet darkness, without benefit of my daily weather forecasts, emails, news feeds, and occasional sports updates.
If you are wondering why I don't use my home internet for such things, the answer is simple. I don't pay for home internet. My blackberry is fine for the my digital information needs. Anything that can't be accomplished or read on my blackberry from the comfort of my apartment is not necessary or imperative enough to require the immediacy that the blackberry affords me.
This weekend proved that I need to have a serious talk with my phone provider regarding the lapse in service. This morning I read an exciting email, and immediately began telling a friend about it. I was considered as a competitor in a well-known global motion design competition, Cut&Paste, which is being held in my hometown this year. I was very excited to take a chinatown bus up to NYC and attend the test round to see if i qualify for the actual nerve-wracking, live, timed competition. My binary heart sunk, however, upon learning that the test rounds were held this past weekend, January 24th and 25th of 2009. I received the email Friday night, a few hours after I left work, and only found out about it at 9:30 this morning. The information in that email would have been significantly more useful if I had read about the opportunity before it had passed.
F*ck t-mobile.
Cynical example aside, my blackberry gmail application is great for real emails, providing I can check the emails in a timely fashion. So this past week, my Edge network has decided to take a vacation, leaving me in a desolate world of internet darkness, without benefit of my daily weather forecasts, emails, news feeds, and occasional sports updates.
If you are wondering why I don't use my home internet for such things, the answer is simple. I don't pay for home internet. My blackberry is fine for the my digital information needs. Anything that can't be accomplished or read on my blackberry from the comfort of my apartment is not necessary or imperative enough to require the immediacy that the blackberry affords me.
This weekend proved that I need to have a serious talk with my phone provider regarding the lapse in service. This morning I read an exciting email, and immediately began telling a friend about it. I was considered as a competitor in a well-known global motion design competition, Cut&Paste, which is being held in my hometown this year. I was very excited to take a chinatown bus up to NYC and attend the test round to see if i qualify for the actual nerve-wracking, live, timed competition. My binary heart sunk, however, upon learning that the test rounds were held this past weekend, January 24th and 25th of 2009. I received the email Friday night, a few hours after I left work, and only found out about it at 9:30 this morning. The information in that email would have been significantly more useful if I had read about the opportunity before it had passed.
F*ck t-mobile.
posted by incrediblemoo at
11:50 AM
1 Comments:
F%$#-in electronic issues...
Love,
JMom
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