A week without communications (nearly)

Well for the last week I decided not to follow blogs (or Blog) or tweet or yammer or email (other than the usual personal emails) or read articles or news groups to see what happened... And other than the fact that I nearly nearly made it, the experience was pretty pleasurable. I did not miss the frequent updates from Paul Daniels on the animals in his garden, or the wise technology words from Ron Tolido, nor did I miss the regular chatter of work emails about the delivery states of the programmes I am working on the rest of the corporate miscommunication that is so popular. The one thing I could not miss out on was my personal email as this is a lifeline to my diverse friendship group (although I did not go on the forums or groups). To be honest if my blackberry was not a combined work and personal machine I do not think that I would of followed my personal email ( of the best features of BIS is the filter!)....

What does this say, well I have yet to catchup. But my experience is that if you are in the now yesterdays news is old so why bother.... Someone will tell me if there were important things I have forgotten, and someone will Blog/tweet/yam about some of the 'old' news anyway...

I was on holiday with my wife and kids, but sometimes it is good to unwind, not just the Ill put my laptop down for tonight, but really unwind.... Try it....
Many thanks

Matt
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Do I even need a laptop

I have been pondering the question of mobile connectivity for a while now and to be honest I am not sure I need something as big as a laptop any more. I am a big blackberry fan (and have been for a while) and have had a laptop as my main device for sometime. I do like the keyboard and for sustained writing it is a must, however I spend quite an amount of time on the road traveling between sites. Which leaves me with the question, do I need a desktop device...?

The days of long winded emails for me are long gone, I prefer to read short emails and send shorter ones. Mainly as a way of keeping on top of the fairly consistent barrage. I have a browser (Opera), an RSS reader (Viigo), IM Client (Windows Live Messenger) and a twitter client (TweetBerry) installed and all the native Blackberry features, what more do I need.. I would like to say that I only need my mobile device, but I cannot.. A big screen (big is quite a relative word) and a big keyboard are a must I think I would struggle without them at the minute, I mean as I blog I have a second screen connected to my laptop so that I can multi-task. That said I am tempted by an iPhone, or another device that can do what my blackberry can, but with a bigger screen....