Archive for the ‘About Me’ Category

Investing in people

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Every wanted someone to invest in you as a person? I have, think about it. You have start ups that get investors to keep them going till they start making money. Would that not be cool to have in your life? Some pays you to do what ever your are good at till you figure out how to make a bucket load of cash.

Sounds good hey, I’ve seen it happen with some guys who’s parents pay for everything till they start making money. It worked for them and most of them have made it really good now. True they are hard workers and not all of them have really done very well, the lazier of the lot are still living of mommy & daddy.

Any way, would love to know if this type of thing happen between complete strangers, if you know of something let me know.

Freelance month….

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Sweet, so this may stress other people out but I got a month before my next contract starts so I get to do some freelance this month.

I’m keen on the idea as if I get the right jobs I can also then take some time off. Also I can maybe do some fun jobs this month to see what the rest of the world is doing during the day.

Anyway, if you need a web made from psd to html/php give me a shout.

damn it, forgot what I was going to say…

Friday, February 20th, 2009

I’m not a big fan on writing and I do try but every time I open this editor up I forget why I opened the damn thing up.

OK thinking hurts my brain today, I’m stressing as my current contract is up end of this month and still not got something for next month. Trying not to stress though as that make stupid come out to play.

Think a thought came to my head, I’ve got this great idea for a ad app but its still in thought process as I have no time to read the needed documents and write the needed documents to get started but so far the idea is unique and simple. Think that’s what I wanted to say but not 100%. What I need to find out is how one would get someone to invest in a persons idea with little or no documentation or what type of documentation is required to get someone to invest in it.

These are simple questions but if all fails there is no hell so I’m not worried.

Since been back on the job market I have found it strange how many places still used windows in a linux development company. They all say they need to test there stuff in IE and they cant afford anything else but erm linux is free and you only need one machine to run IE so you can view your sites before going out. I mean my mentor from my junior days never touch windows and I only remember him once checking out a site in IE to see how it looked. I think if I continue with this I might make a few people angry with some thoughts of mine. People say you always need to test your sites in IE before sending them out but why test when you know they going to work.

Tis Friday so we should all be happy that we lasted another week and now we can rest this weekend so we can start surviving a new week. If that’s your thought process I think its time you got a new job.

Tis Friday so we can see our friends and get some rest cause next week is going to be fun…. is a better answer but that makes me think of the homeless people I past coming to work this morning.

“Vote and Win” is what all the DA posters are saying but what are we going to win? Are the homeless going to get homes? are the hungry getting food? or is another party taking over the role of main con-artist in this country? When will the leaders stop thinking with there emotions and start making some arrangement to better this country. Only a idiot cant tell what is needed so why are they our leaders? if you tell me that one of them gave a good speak about a topic, I’ll ask who wrote it.

Hmm maybe some good news…
Well I sent my CV off to Afrigator got a quick response from them but still waiting for a call. That’s cool, it seems like a really nice place to work at. Also went for a interview today with some really nice guys. Not sure what the work environment is like but they where cool.

focus change

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

You know you start your week with a set list of things to get done. then you start your week and get a new list and your old list goes out the window. Its irritating but at the same time stuff needs to get done and what you are doing is stuff that makes people feel you are getting stuff done so that is cool.

where does the madness end….. oh wait it just started.

openstyle site update to cakephp

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

yes yes, this is now my main topic as this is all I work with now adays, I am still planning to redo this site to be a cake site but need a great design / layout. hopefully will have picked all that soon and can start on the core.

once done I will have comments and all and maybe link to something like openid so that can handle the spam and all.

well that was just a quick thought, since I been talking all day about this stuff thought I would writing something down as well.

Joined at the edge

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Well yes my thoughts on user names and passwords on the internet, can we not join them all, I mean I cant remember that many login details. I mean I know there is OpenID and there great idea of only having one login set but its not working. For that to work you need the big players to use it. E.G. Yahoo, google, facebook, myspace.. etc

I mean what are the chances of that happening. is there no one out there with some sort of idea that will change the world when it comes to internet logins.

I mean next the first world countries will start using hardware on the computers to login to systems and where will that leave the rest of us? Already there are limits if you are based in a first world country and as tech stuff improves and changes we are always behind. I heard of this thing today that can turn your average window into a speaker. Thats cool, but if you look at the stat of the average window in SA it wouldn’t work.

My favorite joke of recent from the Mike man(Barman at ROAR):
Q: What did South Africa have before candles?
A: Electricity

At what point does one decide to move to a first world country and leave there loved home to enjoy the benefits of the first?

wishlist

Friday, October 26th, 2007

So I have this wish list page on my site, not sure how many people view it but I like it up there. It seems to work, So far most of the stuff I added I got so I have to update it every now and again with new stuff. Its a good idea I think.

My reason for this post is that I am trying to think of what services I can offer, I want to put it on my wish list so that I can get some sort of stable monthly income. I have tried advertising web hosting on facebook but all I got was people asking about sites and saying they would need more space and bandwidth.

Why people go asking for more when I was advertising a basic package. I mean basic means basic. Its good enof for a blog company website or family web site, but these people then go and say they need more and want a website.

Anyway, my thoughts on the monthly thing is getting to me, I have to think of something interesting that people will want, I mean I’ve done all these viral marketing email campaigns and simple newsletters but they take up too much time and are not a monthly thing.

Oh well, I’ll find the answer soon.