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I had to tell a client, last night, that 18,000 questions in a questionnaire isn't reasonable.

I felt he wouldn't understand the scope of the problem unless I put it in real-world terms, so I pointed out that it would take two days of computer time to process the results and when printed would be a tower of paper five feet tall. If one were...
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Bartending class was awesome.

Did you know that the world's worst bartenders make $17/hour after tips? After a couple months, you should be making $47/hour if you're friendly at all toward the customers.

"But I'm an overworked computer programmer who has his own business and does okay. What does bartending have to offer me?"

"You can make $300 a night."

"Sold!"

In the past four days, I've read and made notes on 450 pages of programming documentation. It's still not enough, have 250 pages to go.

The goal when I'm done is to use what I've learned to put a web survey package together and release it free to the world. Which would sort of make me a recognized expert on the topic and I might...
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I thught it was impossible to use apple juice as a mixr.

Behold, the hot toddy!

1. Fille a cup with applue juice
2. add dessert spices (cinnamon, ginger, etc.)
3. microwave forever until hot
4. add rum

behold! I have found the fueld for going to the gym.

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Later update: Ruby has no "for" loop!

(Mind is blown!)

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I picked the Indian company. As a consideration to the other companies who spent time putting a bid together, I told them who I picked and why.

The guy from Colorado, the runner-up, sent me a frustrated e-mail. He said he knew for a fact that nobody in India speaks English natively and that my project will be doooomed. DOOOOOOMED! Turn back now!

(It's too...
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Had an interesting situation today:

Company A, a company based in Bangalore, India, gave me a bid of $1,000 for the project I talked about in my last entry.

Company B, a guy working out of his home in Colorado, bid $1,750 for the same project.

Assuming that both companies are telling the truth about timing, quality and all that -- the Indian company sounds...
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Today's journal entry is called, The Importance of Showing Up.

Here's the setup: yesterday, I contacted twenty-three different research companies -- all who had purchased very expensive listings in a trade magazine under the heading of "coding" (data processing) services. I provided the specs for two research studies and said that the projects were going to happen in about two-weeks time, so I was...
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Had a rough day.

The bookkeeping class was illuminating. There's a lot of tricks in finance that aren't about finance at all, but about figuring out when you've been an idiot.

Rock on.

One of the decisions I should have made years ago was to honestly look at what I had going for me, and market it. A good example is that I can program...
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