Quit your day job. Go on. I dare you.

My boss came into the office this afternoon with an iPod Touch. It is, without doubt, the most brilliant hand-held device I’ve ever seen. If you think back to the early days. A landline telephone cordlessly connected to your ear. We’ve come a long way.

Bring on the iPhone. I want one and I want it now. And I don’t want an 18 month contract with O2 either. I need to buy it for £300, unlocked to any SIM card. Even my French one. In fact, I’d even go as far as to buy GPRS service from SFR (the French version of Vodophone) for when I’m NOT in range of an open wireless network. Which is practically never. Even on some of the trains from Brighton there are wi-fi networks.

The weather’s crap and will probably do so for the rest of the summer. Ha! Like a true Brit I’m reduced to discussing the weather on my blog. I’m not alone. Listening to the news on the radio, watching people’s facebook updates, reading my RSS feeds - everyone’s banging on about the weather.

Chamonix’s a very outdoorsy type of place. It’s not like there’s cinema, theatre, museums, shopping or all the other stuff you get get used to in London. People tend to get bored, drink too much and after a while start going off their heads. I don’t mind the rain at the moment. I’m not bored. I’ve got so much to do for the Listings Lab business right now, both paid client work and a big internal project to open up a new product area.

June was a very bad month for Listings Lab. Mainly due to getting ripped off by these twats and I’m determined that July will be much better. I spent a lot of time learning a new technology (drupal) to a professional standard. Then I took the plunge and got out there and tested the market. Amazingly I found a thriving marketplace with far more sophisticated buyers than the flash market I’m used to. Because it’s open-source, the rates are a bit less than flash development but if it’s easier to find clients, easier to manage the work and importantly, easier to outsource then it’s worth doing. I’ve already found 2 brand new, paying clients for this new technology which I’ll be working with in July.

So sod the rain. I’m very busy and quite enjoying it.

The difference between PPP Direct and other PPP Competitors

PPP Direct cuts out the massive overhead. Where competitors like ReviewMe charge 50-100% markup and keep up to half your money, PPP Direct only charges a 10% fee, 5% of which goes to transaction fees for PayPal and credit card processing.

Check out the details here:
http://blog.payperpost.com/2007/05/part-one-of-birdo-release.html

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Watch the overview video:
http://blog.payperpost.com/2007/05/payperpost-direct-overview.html

This is a great new way for bloggers to keep the most amount of money possible while have the safety and security of an escrow-like service that will assure you get paid for your hard work.

It’s not the kind of thing that will keep you in the manner to which you may have become used, but if your blog is flagging, it can make you some money by posting some advertising. You have many choices with modern blogging tools. adsense is one. Pay per post could be a very significant other.