"You may forgo buying a new, all-titanium performance refrigerator, but you can't go without your DSL connection or your mobile phone." When I saw that line in David Kirkpatrick's recent Fortune magazine article explaining why the tech industry remains profitable during this recession I had to laugh. "Or" is likely the key word in that sentence because as I have proven the last month or so, one can live without a cell-phone, especially if you're like me and are often tethered to a desk with DSL/email access. I'm not sure if I'm ready to be like my good friend Phil K. and forego cell phones altogether--in fact--I know I'm not, but this month hiatus has given me a chance to rethink how I was using my old beloved blackberry. I never felt chained to it like many of my lawyer friends do, but I was intimately connected and dependent on it for everything from facilitating interactions with friends to giving me license to not plan ahead.