Archive for August, 2007
The Adverblog - Finally starting to make blogging pay
Some readers might remember a short flirtation I had with introducing advertising to this blog. It didn’t go down well with the readers, and I tended to agree with them. I want this blog to remain a personal thing. But there are opportunities to earn money from blogging, and I’ve been experimenting with them recently. [...]
Airhead
I found this video on monkeymag today, and I’ve just got to post it here. Too funny.
A weird language thing
So this evening I was at the hole-in-the-wall DVD machine choosing a film when a family walked up beside me to check out the menu board of the restaurant I was stood next to. They were speaking to each other and for a moment I couldn’t work out what language they were speaking. I tuned [...]
The power of blogging
Something amazing happened today. I posted yesterday about the possibility of going back to London for a while to do some work. Some past clients of mine still read this blog and got in touch. Turns out the magazine product I was working on is really taking off and there’s lots of flash work to [...]
Time to look for a job?
I think it might be time to go contracting again. The coffers have been severely depleted this summer and I’m running on empty. It’s time to look for a job. Assuming I haven’t been out of the contracting market for too long and I’m still a viable candidate, I’m hoping to find a contract in [...]
Looking for lumberjack schools
Sometimes I get really sick of working with computers and start to daydream about what else I could do for a living. I call it looking for lumberjack schools because a few years ago I came up with the idea of going to Canada and being a lumberjack. Playing with chainsaws and all the smoked [...]
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
I should have done this a month ago. The signs were there, the sleep disturbance, the hair-brained schemes, the inability to concentrate or make decisions, excessive consumption of alcohol and cigarettes, anxious irritability and loss of interest in…. well, everything. Stop messing about, I need SSRI’s.
I found a doctor here in chamonix, did some research [...]
Project Management
I’m not very good at it. It’s got to be said. There are things I can do well, like finding elegant simple solutions to difficult technical problems. Black and White stuff I suppose. But managing projects is a huge grey area. Goalposts move, priorities shift around and it’s hard to keep focused on the goal. [...]
Writing this blog
I remember having lunch with some colleagues in London a couple of years ago and explaining my idea to start writing a blog. I was going to write about the process of quitting my day job and starting out on my own, to try and make a living from the work on the Internet without [...]
Summer starts today. At last
1st August, and it’s finally time to draw a line underneath a shite start to the summer. After an extended period of financial pressure, Listings Lab is finally back on track. There are still a few debts to pay back to the kind people who helped me out, but it’s under control at last. In [...]
