Crackberry addiction

In today's Wall Street Journal on the recent CrackBerry outage:

Lori Sale, a senior agent at the Los Angeles-based talent agency International Creative Management, was at her 14-year-old son's baseball game when her BlackBerry stopped working. She first realized something was wrong at about 5:15 p.m. PDT, when she noticed she had received no emails on her BlackBerry since 5:03 p.m. Ms. Sale, who estimates she receives more than 500 emails a day, became alarmed when her boss then called and asked why she hadn't responded to his email sent four minutes earlier about a sudden problem.

Her boss is asking why she hadn't responded to an email sent just four minutes earlier?

Then there is this panicked soul:

"It felt like a tremor," said Mr. Kleinschmidt, an engineer at a software-development company in Troy, Mich., who gets an average of 250 emails on his BlackBerry each day. Panicked, he pulled out the battery several times, trying to reset the device. No dice. He stayed up the entire night, calling the BlackBerry help line every hour. No luck. Then, he logged on to his PC and began reaching out to other users to see what was going on.

Sheesh.

All I can say is that I am very thankful I have a job that allows me to have a life. (And, by the way, I do have a Treo 700p, but I use it to access email during the workday when I'm away from the office, not around the clock.)