“Bytech Days”
Some “Webmaster’s Blog” this is turning out to be. While I have a couple of web development articles started, so far nothing on the subject exists in the published and very limited archive of this blog. Anyway, the name of the blog is temporary, so it could be that I change it before I add any web related content. In the meanwhile, bare with me while I cover some ground on subject matters mainly related to “nothing”. If Seinfeld can have a whole multi-season sitcom based on nothing, why not a blog about nothing?
With my taxes for 2005 handed over to an accountant, I feel like I just received the “Get Out of Jail” card. I like numbers and math, but as a self-employed individual, tax season is a huge hit on the time I have for other things. When it is all over, it becomes a huge hit on the bank statement credit card, which means working more just to pay it all, thus more time spent on dealing with taxes. It never ends. Well, it does. But never ends good… :)
Last few days have been solely “Bytech Days”. Every bit of work has gone towards furthering the business in the long run vs. paying the bills tomorrow. It feels good and is very rewarding. With the debt almost eliminated, I look forward to more Bytech Days (weeks, months, years?).
I am now ready to get started on the “Licht Skin” for IPB. The original name for it was going to be “Light”, but I decided to change the name over to German. The idea is for a modern, simplistic skin with light colours. I am all pumped up about this project. The only reason I have not started on it yet is because I know it will consume me once I get started. With the taxes done and having caught up on everything else with Bytech, the stage has been set for the design to begin.
All this new energy is good, but it can start pulling me in too many directions. Just this evening I saw an advert for a Dell server for $399. Having toyed around with the idea of running my own servers for our clients has crossed my mind more than once, and tonight I almost made the leap to what is sure to be a long, long fall before I’d hit ground. Everything from investing in a high capacity Internet connection, to server security, applet installation, system configurations. All of it would be my responsibility. No more sending tickets if the latest version of IPB doesn’t run on a particular version of MySQL, or some similar problem. Nope, it would all be mine and right now I know that I will do much better without these issues.
Someday will be perfect for those types of problems, but tomorrow ain’t one of them. Tomorrow is a big meeting with a potential new client for a decent size website. That’s the kind of stuff I will concentrate on for now. That, this blog, and the Bytech web design forums.