While a pic from a mobile will never ever top the quality of the real deal, Instagram has to be one of the most creative and fun apps for the iPhone. Easy peasy to use, creating some cracking pics with the all important ready-made filters. Nothing beats the immediacy and spontaneous nature of a mobile snap. A whole different beast. Here is my December in a nut shell.
Wrapping and ribbons
Sleeping soundly
The gift I'll cherish forever
Love and jewellery
Seaside escapes
Magazine indulgences
Puppy visits
Need I explain?
Secret Santa
THE boots
Amaretto evenings
Friendly memories
Santa's time to shine
Stocking goodies
2012 - set to be the year of the e-reader takeover
Yes, yes, it's *insert depressing observation about the weather here* but let's be honest, you are secretly bubbling with excitement about Christmas and want to shout this fact in a Slade-like fashion at the top of your lungs.
From a selfish point of view I have decided to write about this delectable holiday because I am currently suffering from one of the symptoms of Precrimboitus, aka a cold. Devastating I know. I'm hoping to pull through any day now.
The sheer boredom of illness has brought me to consider plans of the day. Namely the obvious Turkey Dinner. This year the whole thing is resting on my ability to stuff, chop, roast, baste and reduce - providing I do not reduce in to a pile of melting panic as well.
Check out my checklist. Clip art is back with a bang.
When considering a list one must take in to consideration the presentation. A visual hint does wonders for the imagination. I have gone for the aspirational approach. I can only hope to look that ecstatic on the day and that comfortable in such a flamboyant hat.
Pretty much just to keep me amused on a daily basis I tend to trawl the internet for inspiring images and the like. I tend to just screen grab whatever I like the look of, forget about it, then come back to the most cluttered desktop imaginable which forces me to sort though. I found a theme with a few so thought I would load them up all together.
SO, we’re about 6 months in from graduation now and I don’t know about you but I am loving my work perks, stable contact and constant flow of cash.
I am, of course, only joking.
The only perks at I am currently receiving is the free water from the coffee machine, which incidentally tastes and smells like very weak yet very cold espresso. YUM. Oh, and lets not forget the distinct lack of sleep and illegal hours. No really, the perk of this is that…. Wait…. Almost had it…OK we’ll come back to that.
But seriously, Working nights and days mixed into to one hazy over-taxed blur does have its brilliant moments.
My night shift now is an almost comforting place where the people are great and the over-priced vending machine is always fully stocked. The night team find themselves slipping further and further into a sugar-filled bubble where cackling with laughter and listening to Leona Lewis obnoxiously loud suddenly seems the norm.This form of hysteria is starting to set in earlier and earlier, depending on how well the system is working.
One example, I had switched computers four times and none of the articles I needed had appeared at all. Hysteria crept in at 9 o’clock. All thanks to the discovery of the Google 'keyword' tool. Yes, you guessed it, we were crying with laughter at the word bum. Along with Google’s suggestions and how many people had searched for those. Some had included, bum fight, winky bum, bum gallery, bum race, bum arcades and who could forget, bum bum bum bum bum. And that was just for Britain.
Now, let me take a moment briefly to explain what this job actually involves (without falling into a geek-filled black hole).
We upload the paper the night before so all its glorious content is there on the website for the glorious public to see and then complain about. We have to change headlines to make them Internet friendly and find and crop pictures that will not make us liable for some sort of court case. At midnight, all our hard work goes live for everyone to see. It’s a proud moment, like giving birth to a giant 2-D, box-shaped baby tattooed with pictures of Nick Griffin and Gordon Brown.
Tune in for more installations, including the Great Tea Fight and The Wonderland of Taxi Drivers.
