Merry Christmas, Bluetooth Fairy

Aaaah, the season of giving, the season of being generous... with myself.

OK, enough about Christmas.


I learned another great thing about me as a corporate... person: I can tell the future. I can predict (with a margin of error of less than 2 weeks) when my General Manager's BlackBerry breaks beyond repairing. Yes, it's when a new model comes out.
The cause of accident (quote from the receipt from service): signs of liquid submersion, melted internal connectors (and, as you'll find out, a few external ones also), some alien guano, the Windows-Blue-Screen-of-Death, the Xbox-Red-Ring-of-Death and BlackBerry-Green-Screen-Of-Agony. Yessss, such an unfortunate accident.
Of course, I have to transfer all the content to his new shiny toy (the perks of being senior sysadmin). Usually easy, but when one of the mini-USB pins is... gone, it gets a bit tricky. It's time to go for the ultimate solution, it's time for Bluetooth. Now, if you ask the people in sales, this wonderful technology makes them look sooo coool. If you ask me, I am not so happy with the 855 extra COM ports in Device Manager.
Anyway, one reboot and one Desktop Manager installation later, it's time to sync. A bit over 1GB. Watching the progress bar is an exercise of patience, boredom and pain (in this order).
Oh, I forgot to warn you folks, there is no punch line for this story, nothing funny about it. It sucks from the beginning to its very end.