Premier Communications

So, the world nearly came to an end this week, though I’m sure many people didn’t even realize it. No, I’m not talking about a rogue asteroid that unbeknownst to scientists came dangerously close to the earth, only missing this big blue marble in space by inches. I’m talking about Research in Motion’s BlackBerry servers going down for about four hours last week.
As with most disasters the context of such events are best captured by reading headlines. Perhaps you saw the following:

“Where are my e-mails?!?”

“BlackBerry service crashes, burns, crashes again and burns again!”

“Why did my phone and only friend stop talking to me?”

“BlackBerry outage leaves North America strawberry red with rage”

“GRRRR! ARGGHHHH! Help!”

“The day the BlackBerries died”

(Two of these headlines are real. Your challenge is too find them.)

RIM, a Canadian company for those keeping score, came out a few days later with the excuse that the disruption in service occurred while they were performing much needed upgrades to their servers to ensure that they could handle the continued growth of their user base.

Since this was the third such disruption in recent memory, there is a good chance such an outage will occur again. We can only hope that when it does funny headlines will follow.