Head Rambles

Grandad January 23rd, 2007

This world is a lot smaller than I thought.

Now you all know about my pals Ron and Dick who are into the Internet thing.

Now they have some dealings with a bloke called Michele [Yes. A bloke. Apparently he's touchy about that]. He has a blog.

Now Michele employs George who doesn’t have a blog that I know about, but they all work in a place called Blacknight.

Now, George is engaged to Elly who has a blog.

We all have mothers [except George W. He came out from under a stone somewhere in Texas].

Now Elly, of course has a mother called Grannymar who has a blog.

And Grannymar fancies me because she wants me to wear makeup.

And so the circle is complete.

Me - Dick - Michele - George - Elly - Grannymar - back to me again.

And it is all coincidence. I never asked Elly to get engaged to George [and the very best of luck to them, by the way] and have met neither. I have never met Grannymar except through my blogging. I think I saw Michele once, but that might have been someone else.

I think that is weird.

A note here to Grannymar: I’m very sorry, but I’m spoken for. Herself might complain. But there again………. if you are a blogger, you are unlikely to complain about the amount of time I spend at the keyboard, so maybe I can arrange something?

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Grandad January 23rd, 2007

I have mentioned Ron and Dick quite a few times in the past.

Ron works for Dick who owns his own web design company.

They make pots of money, and I decided it was time I got in on the action.

I annoyed them for a while and eventually they gave me a loan of a book on web design. It’s easy. I have already made my own web page. It needs a little tidying here and there and for some reason the photograph I put up doesn’t work, but it’s a start. You can see it HERE.

So what do you think? Not bad!

If I had known it was this easy, I would have started a long time ago.

I asked Dick what I should learn about next, and he suggested Javascript, so I rang the library but they don’t have any books on Java. Only Thailand. So maybe I’ll teach myself all about databases tomorrow. I’m not sure what they are but Dick says they are handy.

I am going to join up on a few fora and throw modern buzzwords around like HTML and FONT and TAG, just to show them I know all about it. And I am goint to learn Microsoft Paint so that I can put lovely graphics in. Unfortunately I have to learn to spell colour as ‘color’ [bloody Americans], but I’ll get there.

I will need my own domain name. I’ve decided to call my new company Silver Hair Internet Technology, but silverhairinternettechnology.ie is a little long to type in, so Ron suggested I use just the initials, which seems a good idea.

Now I have to decide how much to charge for a website. I have heard that companies pay hundreds of thousands for websites, but I will start small, so I don’t think I’ll charge more than €10,000 for my first few sites, until I really get the hang of it.

So I want you all to look at my page and tell me what you think. Would you pay me €10,000 for a really good site? I think it would be good value compared to what some companies are charging.

Give me a call. My books are open for appointments.

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