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People are not always who you expect them to be. I behave mostly the same whether I am at work (IRC), in person, or in IM/regular chat I try to behave the same way in business dealings. I am not going to intentionally fuck someone over for me to make an extra couple dollars. I…
The back story: When I first started University (Fall 2006) I had declared Business Management as the thing I wanted to spend my life doing. Business people made lots of money, business people drank expensive liquor, and drove nice cars what teenager (I was 18) doesn't want that? Before I actually started school I had…
I, finally, made my yearly pilgrimage to the accountant to have my taxes done. The previous 3 years taxes were *extremely* easy to do since I only worked one 1 job and had 1 W2 form that needed to be done. This year was much different, I owned a business, worked for a company based…
Building a community is hard work. There are a lot of steps that have to be taken to attract visitors, draw them in, and retain them. Fortunately, this project came with a community that was already there, just dispersed across 3 or 4 different sites on forums; 1 point for us. The downside is that…
I am behind on my #P52 by a couple weeks so I am going to be catching up over the next few days. Self help books and thousands of books on the Internet would have you believe that starting and running a business is easy, that it doesn't take much, and that you will be…
Edit: It seems that the publish call didn't go through all the way so I am publishing it again. As a contractor I spend a lot of time working on projects other than my own. To keep track of the things I need to do for each project as well as University classes I have…
In my Computer Science course I was asked to write a program, in Java, that would compute the powers of 2 from 2^1 to 2^20 using only a while statement. At first I tried, with just the basics that we had learned so far, to create the program. Things did not go well because I…
Shorter (read: less content) blog post this week because life has been overly strenuous this week. School has become, almost overwhelmingly, full of homework and reading assignments as well as programming assignments. Besides that, work has been extremely tiring because of the workload and being short handed (for completely valid reasons - I don't blame…