Details

Nothing gets me more than thinking people. And I should add that those who have to pay attention to the smallest of details truly blow my mind on a regular basis.

Through work, I received a BlackBerry device. This little gadget has several functions--e-mail, internet, phone--and it has become my newest and most beloved appendage. A co-worker gave me the grand idea of nicknaming it the CrackBerry rather than BlackBerry, which is most fitting. In any case, I recently upgraded from the 7000 to the 8000 series. It was my Christmas gift to myself. Merry Christmas to me. Little did I know that this move would be blogworthy.

It's not so much that the actual change is blogworthy. It's more a feature on the new BlackBerry that is blogworthy. As you can see on the picture, there are icons on the homescreen. They cover everything from e-mail to tasks to settings. My two favorite, though, are for the alarm and the calendar. When you scroll over these two, they display a magic that is only second to that of Harry Potter. The calendar page lifts, showing a different day when you're on it, and the alarm time displayed on the icon actually changes from "7:14" to "7:15." I don't know if this is as amazing to you as it was to me, but it made me think long and hard about whose job it is to come up with such ideas. Who was sitting where when they thought, "Hey! The calendar icon should switch from 1 to 2 when you scroll over it and the alarm clock should change time--and that time should be 7:14 and 7:15." Ahh the depths and abilities of the human mind.