{"id":463,"date":"2007-08-04T13:20:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T05:20:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-01-25T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T01:50:59","slug":"phones-to-be-and-stay-connected-good-or-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/463\/","title":{"rendered":"Phones to be and stay connected – good or bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Technology today is changing at a hectic pace. Keeping up is causing me breathlessness. Damn, I must commit to some workout here.<\/p>\n

On occassion I feel like I’m spinning my wheels and not moving anywhere fast. So much work, so little progress. Sounds almost vogonian<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I am writing this from my blackberry<\/a> mobile phone. Sounds cool, but it isn’t. Blackberry is a form of curse. I am forever connected. Work emails keep coming in. I get tetchy whenever the LED blinks red: “fazz, you got mail you bastard” says the device to me. Very so not funny. If only I could cuss back at the phone.<\/p>\n

Being a tech geek, I am forever fascinated by new technology developments. Those in the communications sphere certainly appeals to me. But strangely enough, it’s not because I want to be connected all the time… But more because it interests me to be able to be connected WHEN I want to. WHENever I WANT is the key phrase here.<\/p>\n

So I am looking at phones. Today I read that internet godzilla google<\/a> is creating a linux based phone of its own<\/a>. Damn. Imagine the world’s ultimate search engine finding people wherever they are! To be fair, I am conjecturing here. But google IS the world’s monster search engine and the phone is the personal appendage to the connected world. Folks, we are moving into star trek world now.<\/p>\n

Then there is the mega-cool apple iPhone<\/a>. Damn sweet that one. I don’t care too much about the connectedness of apple’s new great thing… But I am smitten by its eye candy and coolness (is it legal to use the word “cool” more than once in a blog?).<\/p>\n

Then there is the incredibly capable nokia e90 communicator<\/a>. The ultimate communicator, the brick. This is the one that does everything but make you coffee. It has a built in internet browser, mp3 player and phone and then some…including full-scale pda, and mini notebook capabilities. And then it can blackberry too. A true workhorse. With the e90 I can be connected whenever I want. Only snag is that it is big. No surprise it is also known as the brick. <\/p>\n

But I will have to resist the need to blackberry. Or else I’ll be working 24\/7! Still, being connected is not to bad…just as long it is not for work. My work life balance is now severely out of whack and I am worried it would get worse.<\/p>\n

So is technology a boon or bane?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Technology today is changing at a hectic pace. Keeping up is causing me breathlessness. Damn, I must commit to some workout here.<\/p>\n

On occassion I feel like I’m spinning my wheels and not moving anywhere fast. So much work, so little progress. Sounds almost vogonian<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[457,536,537,534,535],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-creativity","tag-intelligence","tag-movies","tag-sound","tag-ted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}