Cell phones are both a blessing and a curse. My current employer provides me with one which is good when I need to be contacted and I’m away from my desk (for work purposes). It also has the added advantage that my wife can get hold of me when she needs to.

I wont have one in my new job, which is the cause of some mixed feelings. I like being contactable. However, I don’t like being hassled.

Cell phones have caused a major change in my telephone habits: I call people, not locations. It was only a few years ago that if I wanted to contact someone I thought about where they were most likely to be, and then rang that place (eliminating locations until I found them or decided to stop trying). Cell phones have changed that and now I ring a person.

I guess that this is analogous with sending email and snail-mail.