Han always has a dig at me about my posture in front of the computer. My computer chair is - effectively - my bed. I suffered a few weeks ago with terrible back pain that lasted for about a week. I have a solution to my woes:
A laptop.
With a wireless laptop I can sit anywhere, and not ALWAYS in the contorted, convalouted, spine-sodomizing positions I currently sit in now. I could even blog on the bog if I wanted to. Sure, I can always return to my PC if and when need be, but I feel I could so use a laptop.
And I want you to help me get one.
No no! I’m not encouraging you to click on my ads (that will get me in trouble), or indeed asking you to hand over your hard earned cash, oh no. This is something you can make happen.
Free newspaper The Metro are running a “Best British Blog” competition. Okay, you have to register to nominate, but I found my old fantasy football account worked. The prize? Well, for the Wierd-and-Wonderful category (the one that I’m gunning for), is a Sony Vaio Laptop. The categories are a little vague to be honest, but as somebody who have at times been described as both wierd and wonderful, I feel this is the one for me.
So please, for the good of my back, nominate me.
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay.
done and done
Okey-dokey. And if you don’t win, I’m about to list our Vaio on eBay :).
wtf is wrong with you! A vaio laptop YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!
their crap crap crap crap crap! And ridiculously overpriced! Get a mac off ebay!
You could just get a chair…
Tom: Cheers **kisses**
Ally: If you were on the ball you would’ve linked to the auction, to drum up support from my PC loving readers (and possibly Han)
Han: You mean you would say no to a free laptop?
Lottie: That would be logical. On top of that, there is no room for a chair (hence the picture, can barely fit my knees in there!)
Oh I can relate about the pain caused by bad posture at the computer, luckily I had the room for one of those chairs but I think that a laptop is a much better idea so consider the vote cast, but on one condition..no blog from the bog
I promise, if I win Debbie, I will not blog from the toilet.
It’s too small, it’s a family of five, I can’t get peace there!
Has your room changed much since you were 15?
Voted.
No not really! I weren’t allowed girls around, so it is really a little boy’s room. I really should change things about it…..but I can’t be bothered
I’m glad I didn’t now - I don’t want Han to come round and shout at me :).
I’d say no to a vaio despicable things. I’d rather have an acer EXCEPT if its the laptop thats like 10″ I LOVE them and I want it!
Think i did it right…
you didnt tell us we had to be creative in why we should nominate you
how much crap do you have on ur walls? and on your desk?!
Guy: I thought it’d scare people off. What did you put?
Don’t call Han’s Christmas and Valentine’s Present crap!
Han: I’m trying VERY hard not to make a 10″ joke
Ally: Han’s a scary woman!
and seriously man
get some wireless action going out!just think if you mounted your flatscreen on the wall you could then just hide ur tower in the corner and it would be sweeeeet…
*goes back to planning his amazing house full of its amazing gadgetry*
I would seriously avoid the Viao Laptop
http://dcssec.blogspot.com/2007/02/meet-vogons-sony-anti-customer-service.html
To costly. Break easily and their Customer service stinks. (understatement)
Go for a MAC or a Dell. Anything but Sony.
I’ll link to your post though.
If I’ve read the Metro Terms and Conditions correctly, you only need one nomination to be entered for the awards. It’s not a “most nominations wins” thing.
I think the eight categories they’ve chosen are awful. Most blogs aren’t specialist, so most people don’t stand a chance of winning.
And the five judging criteria are biased towards successful, influential blogs. “Quality of writing” counts for only 20% of the judge’s marks.
If you ask me, the awards are a badly-aimed misjudged promotional exercise, designed merely to get UK bloggers talking about them…
diamond geezer
“youth” is a very varied category - imagine the crap they’d get in there!
Dcssec
Good man! but no to dells too, they might be cheap (and come with linux!) but if the battery/powersupply goes it’d be cheaper to buy a whole new laptop!
Rhys
mmm 10″ laptop
To be honest I’ve voted for much easier things in my life!! Good luck bog blogger, but it may not help. I have a latop. Atm, I’m lying across my bed and the latop is on the ground. Hardly good posture I’m imagining.
still, if we all vote for rhys several times, they might buckle to our peer pressure? AND MAYBE GIVE US ALL FREE STUFF?!?!?!?!
Hi Rhys!
No wonder your back hurts and you may be causing permanent damage to the discs in your spine. I hate to be the wet blanket, but I’m afraid a laptop wouldn’t be the best thing for you either because it will encourage bad postural habits due to its portability; also laptops are not ergonomic because you can’t adjust the height / comfort of the keyboard or screen in relation to each other. I have been through all of this myself,it took time and patience to find exactly the right position for my back and neck to be comfortable.
I see your desk has a knee space; can you just move the computer CPU to the top of the desk where the screen is now, then move the screen above the knee space and get a chair? Then move the tv to where the monitor is now. That would be a cheaper way to go and you could control your posture much better that way.
I know you really want that new laptop! But it won’t fix your back problem!
Check this out:
Stanford Univ Computer Ergonomics for tips on how to set up a healthy computer environment!
I think the bog blogger is an ingenious idea. You could do a bog roll review… erm and rate your bog experience out of ten. I’d vote that blog for an award
I actually have better posture with my desktop. With my laptop, which I usually use, I sit on the sofa with my back twisted in all kinds of directions.
Manuel: The problem I have at the moment is with my desktop my back gets no support, plus I’m sitting at an awkward angle. I do understand what Sonja’s saying too regarding putting a chair by my desk, but it makes life just very difficult for me, as there is no space to move (we did try that first to begin with, but in the end I ended up sitting on my bed anyway.
I have actually done a fairly unique step the last few days: use the computer less. I actually find out that I’ve become a lot more productive, and my back is feeling better.
Still want a laptop though!
You might like to check out this neat Ergonomic Chair Selector that I stumbled upon recently. Look after your back and it will look after you….. Or at least it will not hurt so much.
are you crazy? do you think having a laptop means you won’t have the same posture problems!! laptops cause even worse posture problems than desktops ( and that using a chair as well..) think very carefully about what you’re doing..you should really have a laptop-stand and a detachable keyboard..