I am welcoming myself back to the 21’st century of interconnectedness.
This is a bittersweet moment.
Despite two years of resistance Angela and I have entered the embodiment of the entaglement theory in business and the 1920’s-stock-market-of-the-digital-age. The quagmire known simply and innocently as wireless.
We wonder how we ever did without it while our wallets notice…you know we DID do without cell phones.
The convenience is undeniable.
The marketplace is unnavigable.
The time spent thumbing everyones names and phone numbers into a 1.34 inch keypad is unrecoverable…
BUT
…I have tasted the “sweet” in bittersweet, I have seen a thousand points of light at the end of the interconnected digital tunnel and I am texting w00t!
Introducing, for me at least, iSync. A native OS X application lying dormant on my Powerbook until I wondered aloud into Quicksilver “Can I upload all of the contacts I have laboriously and neurotically entered into my AddressBook straight into my phone?”
The answer was one discoverable bluetooth hookup away, and in something like seven and a half minutes I went from point A) finding iSync to point B) scrolling through my wireless phonebook of every contact I entered into Eleanor.
The kicker? Only those entries with phone numbers were uploaded.
I am not in marketing; I can’t sell my shares of BLIEF Inc. for $.10 per share more based on the volume of customers in my CRM database? I only get a thumbache scrolling through or deleting extraneous entries and Apple knows this. Not only that, but I discovered that little bit of functionality the first time I used the tool because iSync recognized the device as a phone and asked me a very simple question
“Would you like to only import those contacts with phone numbers?”
Yes please, and can I get a side of fries with that?
Since I know some of you may not be able to read this from beginning to end without pause, and I know you care, I have one more small thing…the blief GLOSSARY:
w00t! = “totally awesome” in online speak.
Powerbook = The brand name of the Apple laptop I use.
OS X = The name of the operating system that runs on my Powerbook.
iSync = An OS X application for synchronizing data between devices. w00t!
Quicksilver = a very w00t!y application on OS X that knows what I want to do before I finish typing the application name. In this case “is” got me “iSync”. w00t!w00t!
AddressBook = An OS X application for keeping track of all my peeps.
Eleanor = The name I gave to my Powerbook.
BLIEF Inc. = A “pigment” of my imagination, currently valued at $.yellow per share.
CRM = Customer Relationship Managment
Bluetooth = The name of a wireless data transfer protocol
UberGeek = Someone who gets unexplainably happy about a cell phone…that he said he didn’t want…and then he syncs it…and then he WRITES about it…ON HIS BLOG…taking longer to do THAT than it did to ship HelloMoto to his house…and says w00t! a lot while he is doing it!
Ahhhh, now I feel better.
w00t!
blief 
Lief pwns! His 733tness r0x0r11!!!11!
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I have yet to get anything but aggravation out of my phone. Thus, I feel cold and alone when reading of your success.
But I really like your post anyway, because it is interesting and well-written.
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My own cousin lost to the dark side, For Shame! I seem to recall knowing nods of thy head as I spelled out the evils of said technologies *sigh*
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I would agree with Will except I would be a hypocrite! I originally got a cell phone so Grandma could “find me” in an emergency when I am out of the house.
Well technology, in this case, failed — one must have the cell phone with them — and the cell phone must be TURNED ON!!!
But I have found it worth the cost (and aggravation?!) for the good I get from it when I have it turned on — and remember to check in with Grandma from time to time. Especially those times when she is in the process of baking a LEMON MERINGUE PIE!!!!!!!!!!!! wOOt!!
As for James’ comment, he should remember that less aggravation would result if he didn’t try to flush the cell phone —
Grumpy
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