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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Breakthough?

I think I might have a breakthrough with one of my web writing projects. The other two are looking good too, as the web master love the copy. No money from any of it yet. I have about 3 weeks left before the last of my money runs out, and I have to take a dead end job. But optimistic about the big project. Can’t say what it is, as people might be funny about adult web sites. The sad thing is, that just as my life picks up, my one remaining cat: Madame, looks like she’s on her last days. She is... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 27, 2006

Almost there, a Bloggers dream!

Almost there, a Bloggers dream! Well I’ve complete on assignment at about 4,000 words, and well on the way to being half way with the other. The guy who wanted the mobile phone thing, settled on a series of pieces about setting up your own business and working from home. Here I had a real problem, as I had to go into the realms of tax. Now tax in the UK and tax in the US are very different. So I hope I’ve skirted around company law to make it convincing. The call centre thing is wonderful. I get... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Call centres!

Call centres! I’m now an expert on call centres, in Canada, USA and Mexico. Tomorrow I’ll move on and conquer the rest of the world. Provided I get up early enough to do it. The guy loves them! Even thought I was a Canadian. But the amount of work I have to do for them all is crushing. I’ve worked it out at about 10,000 works a day! Even when I was writing the novel I could not do that. How do you write so much and keep it snappy? The war goes on. Steve Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

It's not all work-work work!!!

I am now an expert on the US concrete site insurance market; Canadian call centers and the merits of working from home. Who would have thought that a week ago I was thinking of going back to work in a dead end job? Of course they have still to pay me for these peals of wisdom, but I feel good that I'm actually digging my self out and not in. Even the weather is changing for the better. If this comes off, I'll be like the pork animal in the proverbial! Steve Sign in to see full entry.

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.

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