Month: October 2010

What a Week!

Hospital trips, collaborating on keywords and rifling out content – not to mention applying for some additional gigs – have been the main themes this week as I completed my first 4-weekly month as a full-time freelancer! However forefront of my mind this morning is “should I merge this blog with my Tumblr…

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D’oh!

So, I’m just about to embark on my fourth week as a freelance writer. I’ve learned a few things in this time, but most importantly, I’ve discovered that if you send an email, make sure you have regular access to the account you sent it from. D’oh! I enquired to a website recently…

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Blogging with Word

I’m currently writing a blog post for www.devicemag.com – and the subject is using Word 2010 as a blog editor. While it doesn’t offer the rich media options you might find with Scribefire it is a great use for this popular application. Here’s how the post begins… I discovered that it is possible…

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High-Value Update

This is quite an exciting day – the opportunity to earn my “bill money” in the space of 5 articles rather than the usual 8! As I write this, a virtual installation of Windows XP is taking place (onto which a security application I’m testing will be installed) while simoultaneously a second security-related…

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What I’ve Learned This Week

For some reason I expected the first week of freelancing to be pretty uneventful. After all, the idea for the first couple of months is to multiply four-fold the amount of freelancing I was doing already. I had also managed to secure a new position writing for www.devicemag.com (a great technical resource) so…

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