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Nothing exciting is going to be happening this week. Maybe a good thing though. Isn’t it an Asian curse “May you live in interesting times”.
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So I guess I can take a boring week once in a while.
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Monday… On my only software customers site. They are a huge customer for me, paying most of my bills. Currently they are switching me back over to a project I was debugging here about 6 months ago. I like this change so currently I am a happy camper here.
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Somewhat productive day on the road. Can learn a lot asking questions if you remember to be quiet and listen carefully. Problem with most people is the point becomes asking the question rather than getting answers. I like to wait after I get an answer for at least 10 seconds… gives the person time to add something or continue talking on the subject. Great way to get new information. I think knowing when to “shut up” is a skill, one which I constantly work on.
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I am in my own office for the evening. An exciting mix of software upgrades and website updates. Good to be busy!
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Tuesday… Early morning today. Going to let the day unfold naturally. Between weather and some uncertainty on when a couple of customers are going to contact me with information I need it is best I just go with the flow.
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Wednesday… Another Northeast US storm threatening… sigh. Working at home today.
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Got a facebook fan page up. It needs work but it is a start…
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wired-2-The-Cloud/120538374686818
Replaced the bottom monitors on my rack with black flat panels from Dell. Got them in this week and I think they look great. I will post the pics soon. POSTED AS PROMISED!
New Flat Panels
Twitter lists testing. Need something to organize the flood of information. http://twitter.com/#!/Wired2TheCloud
Some things I have accomplished this weekend so far…
When I went to look for office space I had two requirements. I needed a small and very inexpensive space to call my own, but I also needed it to be creative. Can’t have a technology company in a blah space, it sends the wrong message I think.
So when I saw this building I knew I wanted this office.
There is a creative energy here that I have always liked.
Been rough… bad weather, off hour meetings and personal issues.
Things are returning to normal slowly. Expecting another foot of snow on Friday so will be at the house working!
Trying to setup my Blackberry torch 9800 as a tethered modem… just a little complicated. LOL.
Going to my main client. They are a large company just south of Boston. I debug code. Not maintain code, I debug the problems that the customers and SQA find. I like this kind of work. If you have ever seen House on Fox… I love the puzzles and figuring them out. Wish I had a team like the House character does though. lol.
The commute is about 62 miles. Half back roads and half highway. I go in the back way to avoid Mass Turnpike traffic. The whole thing takes me about an hour.
Should have time to do a few things for my blog. Lots of waiting time.
Got some things done today…
1) Added a bunch of WordPress plugins. Some you can see and others are for me.
2) Changed the header image. The old one was hideous.
3) Added some of the main links to my blogrolls.
4) Decided, finally to go with Facebook and Twitter to round out my presence. This will give me three vectors or more precisely will give you three views into what I am doing here.
5) http://www.twitter.com/Wired2TheCloud
6) http://www.facebook.com/Wired2TheCloud
Amazing what I can get done when yesterdays storm has kept everything at a standstill.
I live in the Worcester Massachusetts area. Pronounced “Wooster” not “War Chester”. If your from this area you understand.
I live here because it gives me access to many high tech markets, Massachusetts, Southern New Hampshire and most of Connecticut. I can even reach most of Rhode Island. This area also gave me a very quiet place to raise my kids.
I have a small office (less than a mile from my home) that gives me a “Main Street” mailing address and a place to meet customers. I outfitted the office with a conference table, a couple of really nice desks and all the office supplies. The space is very inexpensive and I even sub let part of it out to a customer that needed a desk in the area to work from and a mail drop.
Sometimes I work at the office because it is quiet and can motivate me when I am starting to become lazy. I will add some office pictures to this post later for anyone that is interested.
As promised…
The problem with living here is that everywhere I work, all of my customers are at least an hour away. Another problem is the weather. Today we had almost two feet of snow. Sigh. Gives one time to reflect.
Working on setting this blog up… Getting my online office in shape. I’m getting there. Slower than I had hoped but what can I do.
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