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You know what they say about kids and electronics … they know more about them and are more comfortable with them than their parents. Well, this morning, my daughter taught me something about my BlackBerry that I hadn’t figured out in the three weeks I’ve had it.

Thing is, she’s 14 months old.

I keep the phone on my nightstand because a) I get alerts from my monitoring services about my servers and such letting me know that they are down or just not working quite right, and b) I use it as my alarm clock in the morning.

Some days Autumn is awake before I am, and Rachel lets her wander around on the floor (and watches her) until I awake. Most days she picks up my phone and plays with it.

I’m going to have to be more careful, because today she managed to unlock the keypad, dial a couple of numbers (none valid, fortunately).

Plus she managed to re-arrange the icons on the BlackBerry. I hadn’t even considered that such a thing was possible. I wasn’t happy with the default arrangement of things, but I had been living with it because I figured that was the way things were. As a result of her meddling with the phone, I figured out that I could change the order, and even create folders to categorize icons. So, I’ve now moved my lesser-used apps and options into folders, and gotten things to the point that I have only 14 icons available at the “main” level, and I’ve got my five most used icons on the “home screen” (or whatever you call it).

Thanks, Autumn!

I suppose in a year or so she’ll be teaching me new things about programming …