Blackberry mobile post - Test

Awesome, right?
Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

NO!

I'll tell why it's not awesome. You have to send an email to an obscure, 2,146 character-long email address and then go to your Blogger dashboard, find the post in draft, open it and if you edit one f*cking word, you lose all ability to publish.

I'm sorry to swear but I spent the entire train ride hunting and pecking out a post on my Blackberry keyboard, which is best suited for the elbows of a praying mantis, if a praying mantis had f*cking elbows, only to press PUBLISH POST and be met with ... nothing. I had all this text and no way to copy it as the select feature is limited to 96 characters or what-not.

What is this nonsense? Surely this can't be right.

Don't get me wrong, my Blackberry is worlds beyond (what the hell does that mean?) my old Samshit, but at least on that phone I could post directly from Blogger.

I think I'm Blackberry retarded. In the past 96 hours I've come to realize that a CapsLock function would be a revolutionary concept, that ALT and SHIFT should be at separate ends of the keyboard (calling it a keyboard is a HUGE stretch). I need to haul around a full size keyboard if I'm going to manage this blogging nonsense from this phone or download some speech to text software.

Other things I've noticed:

On Monday night, I wanted to call Rogers to ask them to remove my name from the Caller ID option when I call people. The only phone number I know for Rogers is 1-888-ROGERS-1. Good luck figuring that out. You can't spell out a phone number on a Blackberry Curve 3G keyboard unless there's some trick I haven't discovered. At least I was smart enough to try 611 which worked but what if I want to call that SLIMBAND number for some lap band surgery or 1-800-COVERME for some travel insurance? Guess I'm shit out of luck, eh?

I also observed that people still use portable CD players the size of Frisbees. I never thought I'd see the day where I would scoff at a piece of technology that I couldn't wait to get my hands on when I was 17 years old.

I learned that yesterday's post about the speed of GO trains was the MOST POPULAR post this month so far, with over 400 views, and it was share-mailed over 30 times. This tells me a lot about this site's demographic.

People who tap out Bon Jovi tunes on the back of the seat I'm sitting in are lucky I didn't decide earlier in the evening to ingest 2 pounds of baked beans. Which reminds me, I have a story about that. I should share it.

When the guy across from me pulled out his CD player, he looked right at me and I thought he was pulling out a Simon Says game from 1985 and was going to invite me to play. Then this got me thinking about the game and guess what I found online? Go on, guess!

Yep, I sure did!!!.