A superbly written round-up of the different ways an independent consultant in the United States can organize their business, with the comparative benefits and drawbacks of each.

Today was wacky. A kerfuffle resulted from volity.com's highly intolerant mailserver refusing an important mail from a client several days ago, due to the fact that the mail was sent from a hotel with a reputation for spam. The client didn't see the bounce message that the server instantly shot back at them, so they didn't know that I never read ( Read more... )

One thing I forgot in my recounting of last weekend was like I got myself right with Quicken. This is good, but it bears bad news. I can now easily call up a total of my YTD consulting earnings, make a naïve estimate of what this implies my 2007 income taxes will be, compare this figure to the size of my savings account, and grunt ( Read more... )

It was all right.


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On a whim, I just registered for a breakfast meeting of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce tomorrow so I can network with local businessfolk as a service provider. It's a little pricey, but not too pricey to rise out of what-have-I-got-to-lose range. (Plus, it's a write-off. I now make the write-off gesture, to demonstrate ( Read more... )

More self-promotion. This is the page that I want a nice photo of myself on. Everyone likes a handsome hacker.

(To whom it may concern: let me know if I shouldn't bandy about Acadia Net's logo like that. And / or if there's a better URL to link it to.)

That last post reminded me ( Read more... )

Went to a William Gibson reading and signing of his new novel Spook Country at the Brattle yesterday. I often attend readings at SF cons, but it's been a long time since I stood in line for a signing, since I usually don't go for that sort of thing. But what the heck. I bought a book and thanked him for his work, and he thanked me for thanking him ( Read more... )

FWIW, I am starting to use my Skype account again, at least while I'm on the clock with my main client - it's their main IM & presence thing. I am zendonut there.

* There's an really annoying bug with volity.net that isn't going away no matter how often I think I kill it. I am feeling really spring fevery and don't wanna fix it, but this afternoon's really the best time to do it.

* Ha ha ha I fixed it in the time between I wrote the above paragraph and now. No more blank game records.

* misuba sent the Andys and ( Read more... )