As I mentioned, I am traveling on business right now. As I also mentioned, I am stressed.
The cause of this stress is largely due to the fact that technology has not been my friend on this trip. I expected to get a good five hours of work in on the train, but the Via WiFi was so intermittent it made it impossible. I expected to do a lot of my non-meeting based work from my hotel room, but I couldn’t connect to our office VPN for no good reason.
I’m currently working out of a Starbucks, solely because I can access my email in a useable way. Thing is, I’m on my Mac, so I’m running Entourage. Even though we have an Exchange server, Entourage only syncs the main contact folder, i.e. not my “media list” folder. Thankfully, I have all my contact data backed up offsite for just such a situation. Sadly, that site is currently experiencing technical difficulties.
All this is to say… the technology that normally allows me to be very productive has failed me when I need it the most. Even with redundancy built in.
This is troubling to me. Mainly, because it tells me that we’re far too dependent on technology. Secondly… well, secondly because it just pisses me off.
I’m sure working out of a caffeine factory is not helping my stress levels any. Serenity now.
