I know it's wrong to laugh at other people's misfortune, but...

This whole BlackBerry thing is giving me the grins.

I'm not bashing the tech generation, God knows I feed it myself, but the fact that there are indeed people wigging out about this is awesome.

Part of this scare, even though it wasn't as severe and interruption as it could have been, was more about a potential danger. With eight-million customers to this service worldwide, a huge swath of those people being in the financial districts of companies and markets (The Guardian notes that there were worries in the stock markets of the US and UK about a lack of communication for major deals), one would have to wonder what would happen if this was worse. Given that the American market can void its metaphysical bowels over nothing. Let's not forget that there was a talk about skyrocketing natural gas prices over something that happens on at least a monthly basis anyway. Since the story completely evaporated after it turned out to just be a huge wad of mindless hype, many people might not remember that nothing happened.

God only knows what could happen if something with an actual impact occurred. In the meantime, I don't really have a problem chuckling at the mental image of men in suits swearing at a little plastic thing because they can't check their e-mail.