I'm Back

Right, that's Anthony, my 4yr old son, off to school. Well, playschool anyway - he doesn't start in "big boys school" until September. That's one of the advantages to working from home - you can adjust your schedule around your family. That's one of the dis-advantages of working from home too, - you can adjust your schedule around your family.

 

Sometimes it can be hard to motivate yourself to getting the work done. I tend to make "to do" lists, then I create targets for a working session and allow myself a "reward" if I meet my targets. I have built sixteen sites in the last ten days - but my "to do" list has grown as well. I just checked the logs on my servers while I was contemplating my next session - that's a job I do many times during my working day as I want to know about any potential problems long before it might escalate to a level that a client would notice. This seems to work as my clients are generally a happy bunch of webmasters.

 

Time to get on with it - One more site to go!!

 

The First Post

I've never been a great one for writing, but I figure that I have found enough useful information in blogs to suggest that they have a value and a future. Further resistance on my part is therefore futile and I hereby "take the plunge". This is the very first personal blog for me, so please bear with me while I find my comfort zone. I have played about with "WordPress" and other blogging scripts as part of work for other people, but I have never before been in the driving seat!! What will this blog be about? Basically just things I do in my every day life; hosting, servers, computers, scripts, internet marketing, EBay, web design, publishing, programs I use, tweaks, etc. I am a tech type rather than a creative type, but I think you will get the idea as you follow the various posts. I am hoping the tagging of the posts will make them a little more organised than the way I will post them. I have a tendency to scribble useful notes on paper as I work and my office is a mess of loose papers where only I can find bits of information for use. Hopefully, my visitors will also find some useful gems of information.