Technology

(Community Matters) Good gosh, what a disruption to productivity and state of mind to lose access to technology. Thanks to a true knight (our friend Nick at Thinkwell), my data has been restored (had lost 2 – 3 weeks of documents, pictures & emails). Thanks to our tendency to keep up with technology, we have extra laptops and desktops at home, so was able to hop on another platform. However, I use one laptop which I transport everywhere to manage work, projects and for all my communication. That tool is still hobbling, though on the path to being repaired.

Of course, this involves relaunching blackberry platform. I’ve tried to do this myself but evidently imperfectly. RIM is sending several thousand emails to my device every few hours and they instruct me not to delete them,

This message is used to carry data between the BlackBerry handheld and an associated server. Please do not delete, move or respond to this message – it will be processed by the server – then a bunch of gobbledeegook.

This disruption in communication has thrown me completely in a loop. I find it difficult to be present in meetings, to accomplish my work most efficiently and start projects while still needing to fix things – not to mention transferring backups, relaunching outlook accounts, scrolling through thousands of RIM emails to find legitimate emails (if I haven’t replied to you, try resending), etc

Ok, so this is just me. If I think of large companies and the probability of multiple mishaps regularly, what’s the cost of these failures, what slips through the cracks? How much should we be willing to spend to avoid this?