Sian Astley
www.sianastley.com
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About Sian Astley
Serial property renovator, interior redesigner, presenter, currently doing a BA in Design
Interiors style -eclectic, individual, quirky
Fav materials -raw timber, glamorous fabrics, cutting edge design
Loves -redesigning houses
Loathes -boring interiors, there is no excuse not to be fabulous!
Hobby -digital photography
Icons -Marcel Wanders, Jaime Hayon
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Web page disasters
How is it that when i do a job for someone, or have a tenant move in, I give them all the instructions for how to work stuff, yet no-one told me that I had to keep on top of my webhosting package (and there's a phrase I didn't know before this morning) and if I didn't then my web-page would, well, disappear into the ether. Which it has. Great. And on top of that my email goes down. I have no clue if the two are linked. So on the day it is vitally urgent I email documents organising money transfers to Crete and surveys to clients in Saudi, I, faxless, am buggared. Note: have to get fax.
So I have duly paid up to 123-reg (who are great for domain names should you need one), and the techy man who did the website is having to reload it on to new codes. Or something like that. Hands up who thinks life was less stressful when we just rang each other and sent things in the post??
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(3) Post a commentminimalmagic
Sian, I truly understand your last sentence, the days when we relied less on technology. It's so scary how much we rely on technology today. People and businesses cannot live without broadband anymore. Businesses run their systems and e-mail on Broadband, and if it goes down the whole companies operations stop. Financially it is the most scariest thing ever. Just makes you wonder how we all lived pre-broadband, and how we always coped.
Sian Astley
Its Friday now, and the web-page still isn't up, apparently waiting for someone somewhere to press a button; amazing as they pressed the button immediately when I said i wanted to send them some money for re-hosting! And today Virgin Media now have problems with email in my area. I give up. I have resorted to sending structural reports out using old fashioned stamps, fabulous, I will be able to say "its in the post' when anyone chases me :-)
Just like the good old days!
Devils Advocate
Ah, the irony of someone using the internet to complain about the internet :)