Nick Wingfield (Wall Street Journal, October 27) asks if for many of us now is the Time to Leave the Laptop Behind thanks to the smaller, better, lighter Blackberries, I Phones and more recently the G1.

Since I switched from my very old Nokia to a Blackberry Curve earlier this year, I get my e-mail on the go of course.

I would not say that I read many news websites on it due to its lack of real estate (small screen).

I can write short stories as they happen and post it to this blog.

I can take pictures without carrying a digital camera.

I can Twitter.

It might not give me the same flexibility that a laptop or a desktop offers.

It does fit in my pocket and will not strain my back though.

Using a tool like a smart phone with some limitations might me a blessing in disguise.

It might even teach us one virtue: how to be concise?

Take Two, A Day with 2 Monday Work Etiquette, this one #61

Earlier, Take One: Furious Networking...Me and My 10.000 Friends