That craving
For the last few months I've been sounding out a few old contacts and doing various bits of freelance development again after a years hiatus from doing anything serious. Some of the folks that have known me some years know that I ran a successful email system and was a happy freelancer for a long time. I also run a hosting endeavour at the moment. The hosting works, makes money and because of my experience as a systems admin is semi-trivial and doesn't really take up a lot of time.
The fact of the matter is that I don't want to up-scale it and the reason is it doesn't financially up-scale all that well due to competition (that I can't and won't try to compete with), I've been there before and frankly I'd rather not loose sleep. Also there would come a time when I would need to make a choice, a choice I'm not in the mood to make right now because of the current financial markets.
That said... after a conversation I had earlier, I'm craving. So thanks Jake, thanks a lot... no really :-)
Also, I managed to catch up with a few people I've not spoken to in nearly six years this evening; as it's the first time I'd logged on to MSN for probably that long. WIN.
#1. jake
Posted about 4 months ago
we'll just chalk up a beer for my contributions, shall we?
#2. tek
Posted about 4 months ago
Sounds good to me :-)
#3. Robert Foxx
Posted about 4 months ago
I know what you mean - after a couple of years of apathy I have a bit of a craving to create something myself.
Oh, and I wish I'd taken you up on the hosting offer - the fuckers I went with are abysmal! ;)
#4. tek
Posted about 4 months ago
Yep, I think it's about time again :-)
Man, you're joking, thought you were all good with the new host, what's the problems you're having? :-(
#5. Robert Foxx
Posted about 4 months ago
Database issues, slow response times, that kind of thing. The kind of crap you get when you're not on a dedicated server and they've put too many people on it.
#6. tek
Posted about 4 months ago
Shitter. No luck with Customer support? or is it the usual fingers in ears job?
The offer is still there if you want it.

