OxCreative
2011
It’s been way to long since my last post, since going freelance, I haven’t really had a great deal of spare time – and any time I have had has been working on projects that are hopefully going to be kick ass (something for you designers/developers out there).
I thought I would post an update as the site is being to look likes it’s been abandoned which definitely isn’t the case.
The current project I am working on should be launching around the end of August and then it is straight back onto the Oxcreative Re-design.
If there is anything you would like to see more/less of on the OxCreative site, or would like to see something specifically in terms of the actual design please let me know 
2010
My second week into full time freelancing and things are moving along. I am getting through projects that, when I was freelancing part-time in the evening, would have taken me weeks as opposed to days.
I am enjoying the flexibility that if I have had a late night, I can (more…)
2010
I’m at the end of my first week full-time freelancing and there is one dominant feeling I have… tranquility. I have a truck-load of work to do at the moment yet do not feel stressed as my awesome clients (who I was dealing with before leaving my job and going full-time freelance) are happy to be getting more work completed by me now than when I freelanced part time and I make sure I plan my schedule well – so I can decide to switch off in the evening and forget about work.
I plan my schedule a week in advance, set myself a minimum amount of work to do per (more…)
2009
After what seems like a lifetime, my last day in my current (now previous) job arrived and ended. I was presented with some great opportunities but the hours were long and arduous and prevented me from working on my own projects. As of monday, I am starting my new job as a web designer for a giant global cosmetics company and I cant wait!
2009
I love my job. I have good work equipment, great colleagues and the relaxed dress code & flexible hours are fantastic. However, we have had a lot of changes; new projects, current projects expanding and being amended and my workload is huge. It seems like a constant strain to get everything finished in order to meet deadlines and, as the only designer where I work, if I decide to take holiday it just means there is twice as much work when I get back (thus reversing any positive/stress relieving effects of a holiday!).
I’m still hoping there is “light at the end of the tunnel” in terms of workload.
The equipment on the other hand couldn’t be better and to end on a cheery note…..we recently moved the office around and thanks to Brooke and Rich, I got a lovely spacious corner desk and some drawers (this pic was taken before the drawers were put in!).
2009
A couple of days ago (31st January 2009) I received a birthday gift from my wonderful girlfriend -  a 320 gb seagate freeagent go (silver). Now whilst I work on a Mac, I  suggested for her to get me the standard one as opposed to the 320gb seagate freeagent go for mac (silver) which is approximiately $60 more for very little difference.
So after picking it up from the postal office after initially missing the delivery, I was excited to open it and try it out. I ripped open the packaging and plugged it into my macbook pro and waited… and waited and, to my utter disappointment after 10 minutes, still nothing happened.
I quickly went to the seagate website to find out what was wrong. Apparently, some macbooks and macbook pro’s have low usb power and not enough to support a 2.5″ drive. Seagate suggested I would need a usb Y-cable (which draws power from one port and power and data on the other).
As usual my impatience got the better of me and I went to good old reliable Google to scour the wondrous world of forums filled with people’s problems for mac usb power issues.
However, every link I clicked in Google, was flagged up as potentially containing malware and being harmful. My first thought was that I had some sort of hijacking malware on my mac which was affecting my browser and causing the issue.
Google's self discipline
I spent a further 30 minutes looking into anti-malware and spyware removers for Mac before I had the idea to test Google on another computer. Low and behold – Google was wrong!
Due to the usual reliability and problem-free searches I have with Google, the most logical answer to my problem was the last one that I thought of.
It just goes to show that just because something is usually reliable doesn’t mean it always will be.