Posts Tagged ‘computers’New business cardThursday, July 1st, 2010
At last, I can reveal I have a new business card…. It’s not wonky in real life – that’s down to the photographer’s skill and creativity. Since February I’ve been working for Maverick Television, the company that brought us Embarassing Bodies and How to Look Good Naked, to make a ground-breaking website for the NHS in the West Midlands. We’ve still got a little way to go to be where we want to be but the password of NHS local was lifted yesterday. How to stay cheerful when technology failsMonday, February 8th, 2010This post was inspired by a week in which my desktop had a virus. Virgin Media had changed its servers so I couldn’t access my emails. My spanking new laptop stared blankly at me and resolutely refused to run Windows 7 and the computer I had borrowed froze so many times I spent more hours hitting the refresh button than I did getting any work done. (I also had an ankle injury and had to take my child out of nursery but that’s not the point of this post. The point is to find a way of smiling like a Buddhist cat amidst that particular frustration that could not have existed before the internet was invented.) This is what I said to myself: (more…) |
