All this email spam for Rolex watches is just so retro. They’ll be spamming for 8-tracks next.
Had something of a the writers block this last week, which happens. Often. I did go see The Incredibles and recommend it to everybody for all the reasons you’ve already heard. Monologuing… Heh… And I got that fluey virus that just everybody who’s anybody has been having of late which was kinda annoying because apathy, lack of motivation and a sniffle are just such unusual symptoms for me.
Agency work has been minimal – two days last week, one day this week – and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get better before the new year so I’ve taken the plunge and done a Hire Me page. I’ve got a couple of leads for some web design work and now I’ve got something to show them. This could prove rather effective as a week or so of web-work will garner the same cash as a month of temping and I’m sure, if it pans out, I’ll look back and wonder why I didn’t do it earlier. And then I’ll remember the apathy and lack of motivation…
Anyway, let me know what you think of the page (by email rather than in the comments please).
When I wasn’t virusing I bashed together Imagesmith, a little site for my mate Kath who’s making a go of freelance photography. It was quite an interesting experience as she didn’t like my original idea and I didn’t like her idea and because she’s a mate I told her so, but eventually we went with her idea, because it’s her site, with a few of my ideas in the mix and I think it’s worked out okay. The back-end was fun to play with, integrating Javascript rollovers with Movable Type. I’ll maybe write it up later.
And also on the webmaster side I moved my mum’s Yoga site over to a new domain because we’d been meaning to for a while but mainly due to her free OneTel webspace had become FTP-inaccessible for some reason OneTel can’t figure out and the info thereon was getting out of date. The only problem is Google still loves the old site and despite indexing the new one hasn’t ranked it so high. So if you have a weblog that Google likes and want to do my mum a favour…