Resolutions Update

Posted: Sat 15 July, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: 2006 Resolutions, Getting Organised, Own Business, Thoughts, Work-related | 2 Comments »

Way back at the start of the year, I wrote out a list of things I wanted to do this year. That list was as follows :

  • Photography
    • Macro Lens
    • Portfolio
    • Talk to Agents
    • Submit work to various places
    • Join local camera/photography club
    • Look at potential for “proper” photography qualification
  • Work
    • Get the three main sites up and running
    • Make them successful
    • Keep track of how they do
    • Reassess in Jan 2007 – if they haven’t worked, kill ‘em
    • Get more smaller sites done and paid
  • Writing
    • More “proper” writing
    • Longer pieces for d4d?
  • D4D
    • That bloody sweary filter.
    • Installing WordPress 2.0
    • Photoblogging?

So – where are we, as it’s more than halfway through the year?

  • Photography
    • Macro Lens – nope
    • Portfolio – nope
    • Talk to Agents – nope
    • Submit work to various places – nope
    • Join local camera/photography club – nope
    • Look at potential for “proper” photography qualification – nope

    So, Zero out of 6. Not good.

  • Work
    • Get the three main sites up and running – two of three, and other ideas too
    • Make them successful – getting there
    • Keep track of how they do – yes
    • Reassess in Jan 2007 – if they haven’t worked, kill ‘em – nowt I can do yet
    • Get more smaller sites done and paid – yep, two so far, and more on the way

    Much better – this one’s working out so far.

  • Writing
    • More “proper” writing – nope
    • Longer pieces for d4d? – nope

    Another Zilch

  • D4D
    • That bloody sweary filter. – nope
    • Installing WordPress 2.0 – nope, and not going to
    • Photoblogging? – nope, but may come up elsewhere

    And another one.

So at the moment it’s really not looking all that good for the list. I need to get my finger out a bit, don’t I? I know/hope that once we’ve moved, things will calm down a bit and I can get on with some of this stuff a lot better. But well, for now, we’ll just have to wait and see.

Organisation – Getting There

Posted: Mon 16 January, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: 2006 Resolutions, Getting Organised, Own Business | 1 Comment »

Well, the first few steps of the organisational stuff are beginning to happen.

I’ve actually (finally) sent out the invoices for some stuff I did before Christmas. Yes, see, I’m even disorganised when it comes to money that people owe me. Not for much longer, but yes, it’d got that bad.

All told, it doesn’t come to that much – less than £100 – which is probably why it’s taken me ages to get round to it. But it’s worth doing. After all, money’s money.

We also sat down last night and wrote out a bundle of to-do lists, which was certainly something I needed to do. My worry with these lists is if I forget to add something on to them – in which case the odds are even higher that I’ll forget all about it very quickly. So I need to get myself into the habit of writing stuff down when I agree to it or remember it, and that way the odds are lessened. But it’s a bit of a faff all the same. Still, I’ll get there.

Development

Posted: Mon 9 January, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: 2006 Resolutions, Own Business, Work-related | 1 Comment »

Over the weekend I finally started off some of the stuff on Business Plan #1. The basic database structure’s been completed now, and is ready for me to start work on the pages themselves. Oh, and yes, the basic logo’s been done too – it’s not perfect, but it’ll do for now.

Next on the list will be a proper holding page, as that hasn’t been done yet, and is still one of 34sp default pages. Not for long though.

I am a bit befuddled by one thing on the new domain. I’m using 34sp’s Business hosting initially – a princely £10 per month for 500Mb of space and 10Gb of bandwidth per month (which should do me for the moment with room to spare) but it also has support for five databases. Why?

Anyway, at last the things are starting to get off the ground. More news about the development process will be posted up here as and when it happens. And you’ll be pleased to know I don’t intend to stay cagey about this for too much longer. I just want it sorted first, as you can imagine!

2006 Resolutions

Posted: Sun 1 January, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: 2006 Resolutions | 2 Comments »

Well, last year I did a bundle of resolutions and things, and got about half of them done. These are the ones that remain…

  1. Making a photo portfolio, and taking it to a couple of agents, seeing how I do
  2. Doing a few more bits of proper writing
  3. Taking time out, and not running round like quite such a silly bastard
  4. Enjoying life in its new facets

So – they’re still going to be in for the ’06 list. However, rather than having them as resolutions per se, I’m going to have it as more of a to-do list this year, I think. (for ease of reference though, I’m still going to keep it under the ‘resolutions’ category.) That way I can also have some categories within it and so on, which seems sensible in some strange way. So, for now, the list is as follows…

  • Photography
    • Macro Lens
    • Portfolio
    • Talk to Agents
    • Submit work to various places
    • Join local camera/photography club
    • Look at potential for “proper” photography qualification
  • Work
    • Get the three main sites up and running
    • Make them successful
    • Keep track of how they do
    • Reassess in Jan 2007 – if they haven’t worked, kill ’em
    • Get more smaller sites done and paid
  • Writing
    • More “proper” writing
    • Longer pieces for d4d?
  • D4D
    • That bloody sweary filter.
    • Installing WordPress 2.0
    • Photoblogging?
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