Frustration and Computers

During the 13 years I’ve been working on computers, designing websites, and studying online marketing, there have been times of frustration. Moments when I knew exactly what I wanted to achieve, but couldn’t quite work out how to do it.

Fortunately, the frustrations of computers and the Internet are balanced out when you finally manage to do something you’ve been struggling with. That success makes it all worth while and keeps you going, and it’s the same with many other challenges in life. But ultimately, it’s constant learning, and the feelings of achievement that come from persevering, then finally succeeding in your goal, that make those challenges interesting.

Working with technology doesn’t come naturally to me, but it’s got to be done, because the Internet is for all of us, not just for the technologically gifted. I’m determined to persevere and play my part on the Internet as well as I can, and I hope you will too.

This article was inspired by:

• 13 years spent overcoming computer-based challenges to design user-friendly websites;
• “If I Was A Boy”, as sung by the beautiful, and highly tuneful, Beyoncé ^[1].

So, with many thanks to all the geeks who made this possible, here’s a tongue in cheek look at what I’d do if I was a geek for a day:

• I would add all the cool buttons to my website so that readers could Tweet this, Digg it, email it to their Facebook page, and have it digitally tattooed on their foreheads too if they so desired.
• I would employ a brilliant writer to come up with inspiring ideas for my website and turn all my geek speak into intelligent sentences which the general public can understand and relate to.
• I would have an English English spell check on WordPress and Twitter, not US English.
• I would fiddle with my coding all day long and half the night, giving my site every useful bell and whistle known to mankind and, most importantly, I’d love doing it.
• I would make sure my site ranked number 1 with Google for the search engine terms: “Hottest Aussie blogger”.
• I would get one of my brilliant graphic designer friends to make my site look über-cool, so no one ever suspected a geek was behind it.
• I would write a program that generated short, witty strings of words and automatically added them to my Twitter account every hour or so.
• I would be best friends with Leo Babauta ^[2], John Chow ^[3], Darren Rowse ^[4], Seth Godin ^[5],  Seth Simonds ^[6] and Guy Kawasaki ^[7] plus all the great girl geeks I’d connect with and I’d happily share my brilliant tips with them all.
• I would set up my computer with perfect voice recognition so that I never have to type again.
• I would seem shy, but I’d be totally self-confident in the knowledge that, thanks to me and my skills, the future will be a better place.

Now, just imagine what I’d do if I was a geek for a week!

Good luck with your computer and your Internet dreams!

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