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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Wishes come true!

Wishes come true! Never wish for what you really want, as it might come true. Lottery winners say this to themselves and scoff. But when it actually happens to you in real life you can’t believe it. I landed a chance to write a series of articles for a concrete magazine, and now have the chance to write about call centres! Of course I can’t fit them all in within the time they want, but I’m going to have a go. To cap it all I have the chance to write about cell phones. But it’s for the US market... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Concrete!

Concrete! Who would have thought that I would get the chance to have a crack at writing a series of articles about the US concrete industry! Strange thing is I’m more than qualified to talk on it. We have one of Europe’s largest cement plants a mile from the village, and a huge concrete plant the other side of the town. I’ve come close to taking a job in both over the years. After all they could not have been as bad as a sheet metalwork factory, and I stuck that for 11 years! But I’ve done some... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

28 Days later Saw the film: 28 Days later last night on channel 4. Very good, although it did remind me of the Terry Nation series: Survivors. A mid 70’s drama about post apocalyptic survival. The difference here was that Terry Nation’s piece was how they survived after it all happened. The usual thing, virus wipes out 90% of the people, survivors have to make do. Usual thing. But Nations’s piece was about what happens to a society once it decides to try and keep going. There was the usual... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Cold!

Cold! It is bitterly cold here today. We are promised snow next week, and I can believe it. I have several big plans today, none of which came to fruition. Instead I’ve trawled around the net looking at places to sell articles. I’ll post up some of the better ones. But it consists of just hitting as many as possible. I did get a useful list of what top articles have sold recently, so you don’t waste too much time. Of course once they has been snapped up, web designers want something else, but... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 17, 2006

Associated Content! I see AC is very topical at the moment. I’ve been posting stuff about them for a while. But like everything else I’ve never got round to doing anything myself. I’ve just posted up some of my articles on Ethical Investment, and hoped for the best. It seems you can make a modest amount of money from it, but at present I’m so broke anything would help. Once again I’m torn between going full out for web design or writing. Web design looks like a better bet, but my heart is not in... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Ashes to ashes I feel I must say something about my day. Today I buried the ashes of my friend George in our garden. It was next to the cat, which he loved, and in a garden he loved a great deal. Of course you are not really allowed to do that, but as long as you keep your trap shut no one knows. This ends a 20-year period in my life that has been largely dominated by him. We tried many business ventures together, most failed but I gained so much knowledge, no university in the world could have... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

HTML the battle continues

HTML the battle continues I’m getting towards the end of my course on FrontPage web design, and need to stray into more frightening field like ASP, PHP, Java and Flash. Having done a course years ago in Pascal and C, I know a little, and did not find basic HTML too daunting. CSS just seems like common sense to me, but I take on board what they say. If you are too make web pages commercially I can’t see how you can’t use a template. After all, as long as you have taken out the surplus code and it... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Snow in Tinwell

This is Tinwell in the snow! I only put this in to show I can post pictures to the blog!!! Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Bury your problems

Bury your problems With the garden springing to life, I’ve decided to try and clean up the top end. With Mum moving in at the end of the month, she would like a clean start. So I set about cleaning the pile of rubbish we have collected in our various projects over the years. Market gardening leaves a lot of rubbish, and sadly most of it plastic. Now I have already had one trip to the paper bank this morning to get rid of a load of old books, and I think 4-6 more trips would clear the lot. But... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 9, 2006

HTML?

HTML? I am currently struggling with programming. Trying to get back to web design, if not for myself, than to try and land a job, is not easy. But I’m determined to make a go of it. Struggling through my tutorials to see if I can take it all in. Whether I make any money from it, who can say. I have to do something solid, as Ebay will never pay me a living wage, because I have no capital left. I would need a few thousand to buy stock at a price that would make me competitive, and that I do not... Sign in to see full entry.

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