Categories: work
Date: 20 July 2010 20:03:17
Because it did, madly, and it was impossible to explain at work why I was laughing at it and saying I was a trend setter years ago. I was also delighted to find thinking about a phase of my life that was really painful no longer has the power to stir me up to outrage any more. Once upon a time, I took on the onerous responsibility for updating a website. The previous incumbent of the job had flounced off, after a few months, and the incumbent before that had very unexpectedly done his final flounce this side of heaven. I was left with one heck of a mess to clear up, and sort out, which took me a long, long time. I'd no real experience, no real inclination for the job other than a determination to get the mess sorted... such delights as the over 240 orphan pages floating in cyber space I suddenly discovered one day, when I'd already thought the 700+ I knew about were more than enough to be going on with... and the spelling mistakes... oh, the spelling mistakes. Then there was the lack of consistency of style. It kept me going through another period of stress, and kept me occupied. Getting information from people to keep it up to date was like extracting blood from stones, especially as most of those who I was dealing with (a) did not see the point of the internet, (b) thought this was just another of my peculiarities and was I spending too much time with Young People again (c) were not prepared to let me have adequate internet access or money to do a reasonable job! Anyway, why that all came to a horrid end is not for public viewing. Why the BBC Website makes me giggle is for public consumption, though! Taking away the graphics (as that just wasn't my strong point), the way the pages are laid out, and the sizing of the fonts especially the subtitles and main texts are almost identical to what I was doing. And I was told it wasn't just wasn't good enough. Well, as far as I'm concerned if it's good enough now for the BBC, they must have been taking notes from me five years ago!! Yippee. Shame I've not kept a copy of what I did to compare.