many topics – playing catch up…
- Sorry for the delays, but I have been working like a dog and trying to get
my financial house in order. A few items of import from the last few days
are worth mentioning here. - I don’t know if folks usually just skim the top blog on my pages, but if
you want to see what I have been up to with my programming you want to look
at the previous entry. - Even though I do not currently have the free time to write, I have been
using my spare brain cycles to think about some of the essay’s I have been
putting off for a while. I am not guaranteeing anything but look for two,
maybe three essays covering BDSM, training and the dynamics of the Daddy ‘role’. - I cannot even begin to tell you how much I am enjoying the TV show Dark
Angel[1][2].
It goes without saying that Jessica
Alba is the hottest thing around right now. Hell, as sci-fi TV goes the
plot isn’t even all that bad ๐ - Financially of course it is still pretty glum, but we are surviving. With
any luck at all the proposal we made to the folks Tatsumi’s working with now
will be approved and we can get some sort of stable, albeit small, income.
Overall the situation is not totally lost but it is pretty upsetting that
the T-1’s have had to go on indefinite hold. - If you know of an investment type, or someone who knows someone who wants
to invest in high-tech, tell us! Our business plan is rock solid
and our market opportunity is getting really juicy. - Generally speaking, dotPublishing is starting to move to the new wave in
web publishing – it is our intention to continue to stay on the front edge
of the curve instead of the back. That means we embrace the use of Flash and
will be moving all of our sites to the hottest development platform around
– Microsoft’s .NET architecture on Windows2000 servers. Nothing else even
comes close to giving us the options to realize our vision. - Continuing the dotPublishing trend, we will be moving to a more "middle
man" consultancy niche. While we hope to be able to devote our time entirely
to "Project X" in the near future, in the meantime we will continue
to take on clients. However it is our intention to become much more involved
in the architecture/concept development side that the low level coding and
implementation.Why? Looking back on the projects we have been involved in for the last two
years it is clear to us that we have provided significant value in the form
of design and concept skills… we know how to take an idea and run with it
until we have a devastatingly good final architecture… and we are technically
savvy enough to know what will work and what wont. In fact, the value we have
provided in that way has probably far exceeded the value we delivered in the
form of code.Let’s face it, an hours worth of code is an hours worth of code – you can
find that lots of places… but an hour of consultancy that clarifies that
identifies a major new feature or market opportunity has a much farther reaching
impact on a client, and in future projects we are going to explore those skills
more completely.We will probably begin to also act as the middle men between the client and
third party development houses to arrange for code creation. It is becoming
less and less possible and practical for me to continue writing 99% of all
the code we deliver myself as my time and skills are better used in other
areas of dotPublishing. - Kimiko is doing well at the Dojo, she is working hard and it is starting
to show – shemight not see it much but she is getting much stronger in her
upper torso. - I finished "The
Trigger", it was horrible. The book itself was OK, but it is too
bad Arthur C. Clarke has lost his ability to maintain any perspective. He
is so busy preaching against "those crazy gun owners" that the rest
of the book becomes one dimensional and silly. I used to think he was brilliant
– and I am sure when he was younger I am right… but now, it’s just sad.
Ok, that’s it! Bed time!