Posted in Web Design on Oct 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday I wrote about my experience moving a Wordpress installation. Today it was a Drupal move, relocating the fictionclassics.com site to a new server. The process turned out to be remarkably similar.
First I downloaded the entire directory structure of the Drupal site to my local machine.
Once that was done, I logged into the [...]
Posted in Web Design on Oct 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Today survivingwithoutajob.com was moved to another server. It is a Wordpress-based blog and I was afraid that moving it would be a nightmare. It turned out not to be.
I started by downloading the entire directory structure of the site to my local machine. Once that was done, I logged into my old server’s control panel [...]
Posted in Business Ideas on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
For those of you who are excited by data entry, Amazon Mechanical Turk is an interesting site.
The premise is pretty simple — people (”requesters”) post “human interface tasks” (HITs), typically repetitive and mind-numbing, and workers will perform them, usually earning one or two cents per task completed. Some tasks are more involved and pay [...]
Posted in Business Ideas on Oct 25th, 2007 No Comments »
In looking over the businesses I’ve started so far, here are the results:
First Game: In 3rd grade I was pretty hardcore into collecting baseball cards. I’d bring cards I had duplicates of to school and sell them to the other kids at about what I paid for them. Although the teacher called my [...]
Posted in Writing/Publishing on Oct 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
I actually announced this a few days ago on the site, but now that APW #2 has been released, we won’t be publishing any more issues.
Nevermind that we’ve already bought enough content to publish issue #3 (not counting story artwork). The amount of time and money involved in layout, printing, shipping, requisitioning artwork, promoting, [...]
Posted in Education on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday I attended a seminar at the local chapter of the Service Corps of Retired Executives called “Get Your Business Up and Running”.
It was a good seminar and well worth the $40 to attend. Guest speakers (mostly accountants) covered various topics on financial management, business entities, tax strategy, record keeping, and marketing. Although [...]
Posted in Music, Programming/Software on Oct 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Over the past year I’ve developed a utility that lets me trigger all of the sounds on a synthesizer or drum machine so that I can easily sample and record them without having to sit at the computer or fiddle with anything. Hours of sampling can be handled with the click of a button. [...]
Posted in Writing/Publishing on Oct 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Issue #2 is back from the printers and will start shipping next week.
It’s strange that the second issue ended up being more work than the first. You’d think that having systems/processes in place would make it easier.
There are some great tales in #2 covering a wide range of topics including gaming addiction, final exams, [...]
Posted in Education, Programming/Software on Oct 13th, 2007 No Comments »
I just finished reading Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Expert’s Voice). I’ve been meaning to read it for a while, but my to-be-read pile is just insane these days. Part of the reason I put it off is because one of the thoughts I had was “Who the heck is Eric Sink!? I’ve [...]
Posted in Financial on Oct 12th, 2007 No Comments »
I recently bought a copy of Peachtree By Sage Pro Accounting 2007, extremely on sale because 2008 was just about to be released. Since then I’ve been entering the scattered check receipts, Excel worksheets, Paypal transactions, and miscellaneous purchases from the past year. I don’t know what surprised me more — what a [...]