Julie's musings: Guest on the Phones Show Chat

18 October 2010

Guest on the Phones Show Chat

My first appearance on PSC, with Steve Litchfield and Tim Salmon. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks to Steve and Tim for inviting me, and for putting in all the hard work behind the scenes!

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About me

I've been a bit of a geek for as long as I can remember. I love gadgets - I just wish I had the income to support my habit!

I have a BSc Hons in Computing (more years ago than I care to contemplate), and worked in software support for Hewlett Packard for 9 years after I graduated.

I had recurring back problems, and left HP to join Back in Action in 1993, having been impressed by the service they provided to me as a customer.

13 years later, in January 2006, I repeated the pattern of happy-customer-turned-employee when I joined The Veterinary Centre in Henley, having become a bit of a fixture during the last year of my dog Jazz's life while he was being treated there for canine lymphoma. I was originally the Office Manager there, looking after day-to-day admin and the computer systems, which gradually morphed into IT and Communications Systems Manager, until I was made redundant in October 2020 as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

In addition to this I had a part time job from June 2012 to March 2017, helping to support BeyondPod for Android - another job that came about because I was a happy user, and was already volunteering help to others on the BeyondPod forum.

For a history of my portable devices (and what I thought of them) on my Portable device history page.

I am also an ex-Toppy user (Topfield 5800 and 5810 PVRs) and now a considerably less-active member of the UK Toppy forum. We eventually bought an XTrend ET8500 Enigma2/Openvix PVR to replace the Toppy, which we've gradually been getting to grips with.

I was a big Google+ user (now Google Currents - Google's Social Media product), and a member of Google's Product Expert team of tech help volunteers in the Google+ Help Community. Most of my contributions were in various Communities, and I miss those since the G+ consumer offering was withdrawn in April 2019.

I use and am fairly knowledgeable about a number of other Google products too, but I really emjoyed answering questions about a product using that product, as well as answering questions about a product that I used regularly. I met some wonderful people from around the world in my time as a volunteer Product Expert for Google.

I'll post here sporadically (and definitely not regularly) about things that interest me enough in to put pen to paper (or rather, fingers to keyboard).

How to say thanks

If you've found any of my posts useful (or even just entertaining), there are a number of ways you can say "thank you" in practical terms. And they benefit you too.

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If you use my link, I get a £5 credit, and so do you.

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Julie's musings

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Guest on the Phones Show Chat

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