Tail-wagging Journal

   In my small business, computer is a must-have-item and it would be same with most of small business in the world. Unfortunately computer crashes and that happens. That happened to me for a couple of times. We always have to aware of the reality after a computer crash and these were a part of nightmare I had to endure, NO emails – in & out, No internet connection – of course cannot publish my blog, No schedules to be confirmed, No contacts other than tel #s in my cell phones, No business data access… In another word, I was 99% malfunctioning.

1. Back-up system – memory sticks, external hard drive, CD…

2. Good IT service

So in order to survive the computer disaster, I highly recommend to have the above two things. I use an external hard drive to back up the all my business data, by t he way, I use “Seagate Free Agent Go” which has 250GB capacity. I love it! I set it up as backing up the information whatever I want to do in my computer automatically. (http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/)

And IT service could be an individual computer technician or a technical customer service at the company where your computer is from. The important thing is you have to know where you contact when your computer is sick.

My small business can never ever survive without “computer.” I adore my computer as my business partner and it’s my responsibility to take care of my biz partner as much as I can.

Alexander Mcqueen, spring 2010

    I saw the Alexander McQueen’s exhibition, “SAVAGE BEAUTY” at Metropolitan Museum of Art. (http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/ )It was breathtaking. As a designer who learned fashion design and still is related to it, I can’t stop paying respect to his creativity. That is far beyond a fashion designer’s territory and emerges out of his artistic nature. In the meanwhile if I simply looked at every single piece of his design as a human being, I realized myself deeply sad.. He can never design on the earth again.

On the way home, “why he chose to put a period to his life?” I kept thinking. Nobody can answer that. I truly hoped that he knew why had to do or wanted to do. Lee Alexander McQueen redesigned his whole creative world by his death one more time. Was it his final challenge in his forty years life…? 

We should know why we do what we do, no matter what. That’s a basic responsibility as a human being. Otherwise we can’t be a challenger. 

Do I know why I do what I do? Yes, I do – started small business, designing for a dog not a human being, small but a charming on-line dog clothing store, not a millions of subscribers of e-news letter, “Puppy News” but well engaged people and this blog that I have to squeeze my capability of English Language. I cherish all of them in my heart.