I'm going to reflect on my progress at creating my own webpage here. I have one word which kind of covers how my work has been going, miserably.

I'm a quiet person and am not use to creating pages dedicated to myself so i found the experience rather intimidating, feeling a constant need to be entertaining and witty.

I do think that the internet's an excellent place for expressing yourself as it gives you a certain amount of privacy and control but from a personal perspective its not for me. I think you still need to be confident to excel in the online world, just confidant in different things. The class helped me learn ALOT, throughout the semester i was made aware of how little i knew about computers and the internet. I never knew how influential and widespread blogging and personal webification was or the power it can have to both individuals and society as a whole.

I find it amazing that we've created another world, like the real one isn't enough.

New phone <3

This time i only lasted a day without a phone. If theres one thing i'm terrible at though its making a decision, so faced with 30 phones and 5 different companys was like a nightmare for me. Luckily i had two lovely friends with me, one was hungry and so quite useless and the other one used to sell phones and is male, so of course he took it upon himself to find me the best deal. I ended up with a sony ericsson, wouldn't know the model for the life of me but i do know that i'm in love with it. It has a 5 megapixel camera which is better then my digital one, a great music umm system do you call it? And a really good battery life.

I'm now on a plan, thought i may aswell go into debt with my phone aswell. Somehow got conned into expensive insurance which they assured me was a neccessity, as soon as i got home i was told otherwise though and really need to remove it.

Finding a new phone wasn't really that hard after all, easiest thing is grabbing the brochures from all te shops sitting down finding the one you want and just asking for it, not listeneing to their ridiculous sales tactics.

Customers

I'm going to have another whine about customers today, they are in fact all evil beings. Now i'm quite aware of the fact that i'm not always the worker and do indeed consume aswell but i like to think of myself as a moral and kind customer.

I work in a discount variety store that is most often frequented by seniors and stay at home mums. These people who one would assume are loving and harmless are transformed into horrible horrbile people when they can't purchase their chocolate covered ginger or their favourite washing powder.

It's the fact that they feel the need to blame the person on registers for items being out of stock or missing a barcode. The one person in the store who literally doesn't leave one spot for their entire 9 hour shift. Someone who isn't moving stock, ordering or ticekting. The person hired to help the customers.

*took a break from writing here*

As you can probabaly tell by my incessant rambling, i worked today and it wasn't good.
I think people need to chill out a bit more and relax, remember the people working in shops are people too!

LOST PHONE

I lost my phone yesterday.

I quite pathetically cried for hours on a bench in engadine mourning over the loss. I swear i only left it for two seconds! Some extremely desperate and quick person must of snatched it up.

I worked out why people talk about their phones as if they're alive, in this modern age we find ourselves living through technology, it becomes a part of our everyday lives, a part of us. Now that might seem a bit extreme but what was upsetting about losing it wasn't the loss of the actual phone, its easy enough to get one of those these days, the sad part was losing what was on it. I lost photos from nights out over the past months, messages from a friend that passed away, hundreds of phone numbers, music my friends sent me, the content on that small piece of technology meant the world to me and i'll never get it back.

They can do anything these days with phones, i just saw a phone with a flippin finger print detector on it! If hey can do that then surelyyy they can do something to prevent losing them.

The next thing they should add is a homing device! Now THAT would be a worthwhile feature.

Woops again

Once again i've fallen behind with my blogging, as you can tell by my complete lack of commitment, this is not something that comes naturally to me! I'm not much of a sharer so keeping a public is a littttle out of my comfort zone. To make up for my lack of effort i am going to be working my ahh fingers off this week to catch up and create a blog worth reading (i am fully aware of the terrible spelling and sentence structure thus far, bare with me). So thank you for being patient, my probabaly non existent audience, and stay tuned for more blogs ASAP!

Mobile Production - Week 10 workbook

Mobile Production - Week 10 workbook

In class today we were asked to produce content for our blogs usiong our mobile phones. Nikki and i set off with the intent to take pictures of signs and create a collage of some sort, however, our plans were ruined by the absolutly terrible camera quialty. After having wasted ten minutes of our precious time and ruining our well thought out (ha) plan, we were forced to completely change what we were doing.

The failed project led us to question how useful the cameras on phones actually are these days. My phone has an everchanging multicoloured keypad, can hold two sims, connects to the internet and is an MP4 but when it comes to the simple task of taking a picture it fails miserably.

As David mentioned before cameras have become a standard feature to phones with it now being hard to find one without it. An important issue though is that the quality of the cameras seems to have been pushed to the side. Cameras are added for the mere reason of saying that a phone has one, quality has been forgotten.

plastic bags

I work in a store where we buy plastic bags by the million. It’s assumed that nearly every customer will take one and I HATE THEM!

The majority of people don’t even need them. They have a leather bag that you could probably fit a young boy in and yet they ask for a plastic bag for two batteries! It seems everybody in the shire is more worried about their manicure getting ruined or the 4 second journey back to the car then they are about the environment.

If a customer asks for a bag and they already have 8 half empty ones, I’ve taken to throwing there stuff in the bag whilst quite obviously death staring their other bags.
It’s a little sad how I get offended if somebody asks for a plastic bag now, I feel like they are betraying the environment. What probably sadder though is that I seriously have to hold back from jumping over the counter and hugging someone when they buy an environmental one.