I've been thinking lately about ways to use the web to make money - duh, I'm sure I'm the first one to think of that. While having these thoughts churn through my head (all of which could make me independently wealthy) I'm tossing out domain names to register, and then put together a site. Much to my dismay and growing anger, I'm discovering someone has had the same idea.
However, these unnamed individuals aren't buying the domain to create a site, they're just buying the domain, usually for under $10. People like then have to fork over major clams to aquire it. Case in point - yougottabekiddingme.com - shows as registered. I checked on 1and1 and and also on network solutions. On Network Solutions, they had the option to add said domain to your shopping cart for a mere $3300 or so - what a rip!!
Maybe I shouldn't complain. That's just the entrepenurial spirit of capitalism at its finest. That was my idea (the dot com for that one is also taken) doesn't hold water much in this day and age.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Thoughts for a Sunday evening
It's around 5 on a Sunday afternoon. Just got the youngest out the door with the wife to go to birthday party. Not sure why anybody would schedule a birthday party for a 6 year old on a school-night, but whatever. Not much to say, but as I'm really trying to make an honest attempt at this again, I figured I should try to post as often as possible...however rambling it may be.
I'll be putting up my revamped support site this evening. I hope it gets up, because my support clients would have a difficult time getting to it if its not. Web site are not my greatest talent, but I can get by with a little help from my friends - Dreamweaver and Trial and Error. I don't like real busy and flashy [not speaking about sites that use flash technology] sites. In my opinion they detract from the purpose of having a web site - to disseminate information. Most of the time these pages go completely overboard, to the point of being obnoxious in their design.
I've got a human friend who's a whiz at design, and he'll help me out with ideas [more on him later, we're still working on his site]. Right now he's fairly busy making money for "The Man". Hopefully, we can change that in the near future - we've got some ideas on the back-burner. Those ideas need to go to the front burner.
It's tough though trying to branch into new ventures. The old saying; [don't actually know how old it is] "it's hard to remember why you were draining the swamp when you're up to your ass in alligators" is so true. I find myself at work, a fair amount of time wishing I could devote more time to R&D [which for me is experimenting with the myriad offerings of open-source software]. When you have 35 accountants in two offices and various outside clients that need support, it's tough to do what you want to do. With that being said, I'm thankful though for all those that need support - if they didn't, I wouldn't have a job.
I'll be putting up my revamped support site this evening. I hope it gets up, because my support clients would have a difficult time getting to it if its not. Web site are not my greatest talent, but I can get by with a little help from my friends - Dreamweaver and Trial and Error. I don't like real busy and flashy [not speaking about sites that use flash technology] sites. In my opinion they detract from the purpose of having a web site - to disseminate information. Most of the time these pages go completely overboard, to the point of being obnoxious in their design.
I've got a human friend who's a whiz at design, and he'll help me out with ideas [more on him later, we're still working on his site]. Right now he's fairly busy making money for "The Man". Hopefully, we can change that in the near future - we've got some ideas on the back-burner. Those ideas need to go to the front burner.
It's tough though trying to branch into new ventures. The old saying; [don't actually know how old it is] "it's hard to remember why you were draining the swamp when you're up to your ass in alligators" is so true. I find myself at work, a fair amount of time wishing I could devote more time to R&D [which for me is experimenting with the myriad offerings of open-source software]. When you have 35 accountants in two offices and various outside clients that need support, it's tough to do what you want to do. With that being said, I'm thankful though for all those that need support - if they didn't, I wouldn't have a job.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Greetings
Greetings to all. This is the first attempt at the third attempt of blogging. That probably doesn't make much sense unless you're one who procrastinates and typically finishes projects to 95%.
My life as an IT professional started quite by accident. I actually have a masters degree in exercise science/physiology with an emphasis in cardiac rehabilitation. I spent 17 years in health care as the exercise physiologist at a fairly large physical therapy practice. I have always been interested in gadgets, especially those of the of the electronic type. My kids always ask me what kind of computer I had as a kid. I try to explain that computers weren't as readily available then as they are now (my first was a Timex Sinclair 1000 - essentially you hooked it up to a TV and typed BASIC code. I didn't do much).
Back to the physical therapy job; when I was first hired the office only had one or two IBM PCs, the rest were dumb terminals. It didn't take long before I was the go-to office geek. After about 10 years there I was about equally split between patient care and PC and network management. By that time the office staff, patient load and the need for more technology had grown significantly. Now we were into several servers with AIX and Windows server operating systems.
After 14 years, my cynical nature and the frequent lack of motivation by patients to re-enter the workforce after sustaining a work-related injury drove me to make a career changing decision. I approached my bosses, ( one of whom was a self-described gadget-nerd like myself) and let them know I far as I was concerned I had to manage just the non-biological assets of the practice or I was out the door. They agreed, and the rest is history. I stayed on there another 3 years. I learned quite a bit and also learned that I had a lot to learn.
My current job is the IT manager of an accounting firm. I manage two offices with approximately 15o network assets and the associated biological units that interact with them. As you read this, I may seem like a very non-people person. That's really not true, ask the people who can't stand me. Just joking. I also have several clients outside the firm that I support. these include law firms, medical practices (which while I'm there, I'm reminded constantly why I got out of health care).
My life as an IT professional started quite by accident. I actually have a masters degree in exercise science/physiology with an emphasis in cardiac rehabilitation. I spent 17 years in health care as the exercise physiologist at a fairly large physical therapy practice. I have always been interested in gadgets, especially those of the of the electronic type. My kids always ask me what kind of computer I had as a kid. I try to explain that computers weren't as readily available then as they are now (my first was a Timex Sinclair 1000 - essentially you hooked it up to a TV and typed BASIC code. I didn't do much).
Back to the physical therapy job; when I was first hired the office only had one or two IBM PCs, the rest were dumb terminals. It didn't take long before I was the go-to office geek. After about 10 years there I was about equally split between patient care and PC and network management. By that time the office staff, patient load and the need for more technology had grown significantly. Now we were into several servers with AIX and Windows server operating systems.
After 14 years, my cynical nature and the frequent lack of motivation by patients to re-enter the workforce after sustaining a work-related injury drove me to make a career changing decision. I approached my bosses, ( one of whom was a self-described gadget-nerd like myself) and let them know I far as I was concerned I had to manage just the non-biological assets of the practice or I was out the door. They agreed, and the rest is history. I stayed on there another 3 years. I learned quite a bit and also learned that I had a lot to learn.
My current job is the IT manager of an accounting firm. I manage two offices with approximately 15o network assets and the associated biological units that interact with them. As you read this, I may seem like a very non-people person. That's really not true, ask the people who can't stand me. Just joking. I also have several clients outside the firm that I support. these include law firms, medical practices (which while I'm there, I'm reminded constantly why I got out of health care).
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