OK folks, you’ve all been asking for an update.. so here it is. emoticon

First, I’ll explain why I haven’t posted a new entry for a while.

 

I’ve been working!

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Yes, I know it’s hard to believe because I usually worked so little back "home". (That was sarcasm for the more dim-witted of you.) On a side note, I have no problem to insult my loyal blog readers.. it’s my blog after all and if you have nothing better to do then come here and ask for updates then I think I deserve to insult you. emoticon

So ya, I’ve been working. 

"Doing what?", you ask?

Well, a few different things.  If you haven’t already clicked the What I Do link at the top of this page, you probably don’t know what I do.

I own a business that does "internet stuff". My businesses name is long and involves toads so I’ll just jump to the meat of things.  Basically, I have a big (to me, but not when compared to monster companies) website hosting business, small domain registration business, internet consulting business, and I sell some software that I wrote a while ago called "SnippetMaster".

It’s this last bit that I have been working on literally day and night for the last few weeks. My "breaks" come only when some other need presents itself (like setting up new customers for hosting, answering the occasional helpdesk request, or fixing some problem for some client, or eating one of Cara’s yummy meals, visiting our pink bathroom, or sleeping.  Even sleeping is pretty much work for me, however, since I usually stay awake with lines of programming code going through my head and trying to figure out what is causing that infernal bug I’m trying to fix…)

You see, my software is outdated.  It still works well, and does what it "needs" to do.. but I haven’t updated it to keep up with all the new web browsers and other new things that weren’t around 2 years ago when I wrote it.  And so… many of my customers are asking for an update.  They want new features.  They want it to work with Mac browsers.  They want multiple users. they want ability to edit more then one snippet on a page.  I have a looong list — trust me.

Henri working like a slave to his job.So I’ve been literally sitting here in my "work zone" for 15 – 20 hours a day for the last week trying to get the software updated and fixed up so it’s just perfect. I hired a developer to handle some of the work, but a lot of it is stuff that only I can do since it would cost too much to hire someone to "learn" how my crappy coding was done the first time around and to fix it up and then actually be productive.  Part of my problem is that I’m a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to programming, and so I’m spending a lot of time getting things just right, instead of just hammering them out and then sending out buggy software.

Here’s a picture of me working in my "office".  All I can say is that I love my laptop, and can hardly wait until our container is finally here so I can set up my wireless network and have some freedom to work elsewhere instead of tethered to the corner of our couch. Pretty soon I’ll have my cell phone enabled with wireless internet, and then I’ll be able to actually leave the house and work while away. Isn’t technology great?

So that’s why I haven’t updated my blog for a while. I’ve been just crazy busy, and I wanted to get things finished and released to my beta testing team before my sister-in-law arrives on Saturday.

But.. it looks like that won’t happen.. AND.. see my next blog post about the status of our "stuff".

Cheers everyone!  Life in Corsica is good.