One of our new employees has a thing called a "Blackberry". I don't 
fully comprehend what it's supposed to be, but apparently it's supposed 
to be possible to read email using it. And I have been asked to 
configure this.

My first question is: Oh my God, what the HELL?! Are you KIDDING me?!! 
This thing is just *horrible* to operate. It took me, like, 25 minutes 
to type in an 8-character username! Jesus, talk about unfriendly...

I thought the glide pad on laptops was useless. But this has something 
far worse: a small ballbearing. It rotates, and this sometimes moves 
stuff on screen. (But only if it feels like it.) You can also press on 
it to "click" it - with the obvious and inevitable problem that doing 
this causes the ball to rotate rather than depress, with extremely high 
probability.

Next we come to the keyboard. What, you couldn't make the buttons any 
smaller than that? :-P (Watching Mr Piggy Fingers attempt to operate it 
was just comical.) I especially love the way the keyboard works 
differently depending on which text field you're trying to operate. 
Actually, on some of them it works kinda OK. But on others, it 
absolutely *insists* on inserting unwanted extra characters, and even 
*changing* characters that I've already typed in correctly. (Like I 
said, 25 minutes to enter one username.)

Other nice features include input fields that are only wide enough to 
display 3 characters at a time (to prevent you from checking whether you 
typed everything in correctly), and the inability to move the pointer 
far enough to the right to access the scrollbar.

Why in the name of goodness would any sane person want to use this 
horrid, horrid device?! >_<

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