Elizabeth Fish

Looks like I already broke that resolution then. I suppose I have news I can share with you, but to make it easier to your eyes I will bullet point it.

• I write on The Next Web (.com and UK channels) now and then about internet-related tech. The stories generally go down quite well as I like fishing out the quirky news. View my archive here and here. As you can see, my updates haven’t been quite as regular due to it being my last year at uni, so various things such as dissertation work, student newspaper stories and general uni essays have gotten in my way. Speaking of student publication…
• … The student newspaper I am Culture Editor for – The Linc –  now has a magazine supplement inside. The Linc Magazine will contain Culture, Lifestyle and Fashion articles, and I look forward to you reading the Culture section…
• The Linc was also nominated for a BBC Innovation Award. Although we came back empty handed, it was great to be recognised.
• I am looking for some more work experience. Newspaper, magazine, online, I don’t mind what you are, I’ll do it!]
• Er… I turned 21. I also got some Lady GaGa (I’m a big fan, okay?) tickets. Maybe I’ll take my nice camera with me to the gig, I haven’t got that far yet.
• I’m also thinking of starting up another blog. I guess you could call it a news blog, but I think theres a couple of legalities I need to work out before setting it up.

Well, that’s about all I can think to fill you in on. Enjoy reading my archives on the website I just dropped to you, come back soon, as I’m going to start adding little bits and bobs from the web that I find interesting etc that I’m sure you will enjoy. Plus, I’ll actually update more instead of being lazy.

I would say Happy Valentines, only I’m not into that ‘holiday’ so happy Sunday!

Happy New Year to my readers!

My only resolution for 2010 will be to update my blog a lot more- I write almost daily now for The Next Web, which is some of my best writing, so really need to share with you!

Plus The Linc were nominated for a Guardian Media Award, which i eed to tell you all about too. Expect these posts shortly.

Last week, my old 13″ white Macbook seemed to breathe its last breath, as not only did the battery wear out but it decided, after an update, that not loading the operating system would be a good idea too. This consequently lead to year another trip to the local Apple store.

While I was there, I couldn’t resist checking out the new MacBook Pro. Better battery life, faster, and externally sleek to name a few differences. One hour later, I leave with one 13″ 160GB Pro, 3 year Apple care, QuarkXpress 8 and Snow Leopard (Apple’s next operating system) at the price of the postage. All of that with 26% discount whacked on.

Anyway, in the process of adding all my files and applications etc from the old MacBook, just wondering if there’s any handy shortcuts or tricks that weren’t in the older models?

Just a quick post to say I’ve updated elizabethfish.co.uk to the latest version of Wordpress, 2.8.3. If you have a Wordpress blog, upgrade, or if you want to give Wordpress a try,  download it here.

It has been a while hasn’t it? No excuses really, just a mix of being lazy, and whenever I get round to blogging, something else comes up!

Anyway, let’s talk WWDC. Yeah okay that was just over a week ago now, but Apple is something I’d talk about any day of the week and on a personal note due to that I spent a week trying to get my paws on the new iPhone!

So as the above suggests, Apple announced the new iPhone 3Gs at the conference. Faster, 16/32GB, compass, ability to track if your phone is lost/stolen and then be able to wipe it from a website, putting it VERY briefly. As it happened, my contract ran out the week before the iPhone is released, I was pretty sure what my next phone would be!

One UK mobile retailer (surprisingly not o2) decided the new iPhone was available to pre-order. Hooray! So off I went to set up contract and secure myself one for Friday- as quite frankly I don’t like the idea of getting up at stupid o’clock in the morning to queue outside o2, only to maybe find they ran out of stock. No thank you.

However, this is where I encountered a problem. The house in which I live is a new build, no-one has lived in it before me and my partner. However, neither the council or our letting agency bothered to add it to Royal Mail’s database. So we show up on no database using Royal Mail’s- o2 and this retailer included. So when it came to credit check time, I got declined! I was pretty annoyed seeing as o2 had happily taken my monthly bill from that address, so I went to o2 to complain, who sent me to their customer services line, who told me to call Royal Mail, who told me to talk to the Council, who were helpful enough to put it onto the database for me- which was meant to take 2 WEEKS!

So, pretty annoyed. In the end, with the help of Royal Mail on Twitter, it only took about 3-4 days, so yesterday- iPhone pre-order get! So I will, for those who want it to help make up their mind if they should purchase one, write a nice little review about it on Friday when I return from collecting it.

In other news, congrats to Kelly and Rob Wythe on having their gorgeous baby boy Isaac Oliver Wythe, born June 13th.

Hello all,

Back from a 3 day ‘holiday’ in the capital. Although more of an excuse of a holiday as my partner was at a conference- the Future of Web Design 09- it was definitely brilliant none the less. I am only female; the shopping was immense. Seeing Canary Wharf lit up from where we were staying in Greenwich was absolutely lovely, such a smart set of buildings- maybe I’ll work there one day

Shopping and sights aside, my main query to this point was my trip to the Apple Store. Great as it was- the biggest one I’ve been in yet- I don’t know if their advice was fully correct. My main reason for visiting was to try and get a weekend slot at the Genius bar, as my battery seems to be dying out slowly. However, there were no slots left while I was there so I asked one of the store assistants if I took a battery to the counter and said I had Apple care, would it be free?

My answer has left me in a state of slight concern. I was told that my Apple Care does not cover ‘natural causes’ of breakdown so I would have to buy a new battery, which are in the region of £70. Fair enough if age has worn the battery down, but surely natural causes were the same reason my charger fizzled out, which they replaced free of charge for a new one?

Well tomorrow I intend to visit the Apple Store in Meadowhall, armed with a broken charger (I have more than one now….), a dying battery and a macbook that turns on twice, re-indexes the hard drive whenever switched on and is generally very slow when using applications. Could be a long time Im macbook-less altogether….

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