Posts by Mike Taber

The last two weeks have been pretty harrowing. I’ve been clocking in at around 80+ hours/week and it’s likely to continue for another week. They say it takes hard work to build a business. Unfortunately, I’m just making money. You have no idea how strange it is to say that.

*sigh* On Monday of this week, Eric Sink offered a coupon for Vault purchases in the month of May. If I’d only waited another week before purchasing the extra Vault licenses, I could have saved myself 20% on them. And I didn’t actually need to purchase them for another 2 weeks. Ah well. Maybe he…

I really couldn’t believe my eyes when I read this one. I saw this article listed on Google News this evening, and couldn’t help but read it. As if any real experts would have ever thought that a Mac was immune to a virus. Perhaps that’s where my intense dislike of self-proclaimed experts comes from.…

Somewhere between signing my second and third contractor agreement, I didn’t realize that I had been in business on my own for six months already. I guess since things are on the upswing, I wasn’t really paying attention. Six months later, and still in the black. Not a bad spot to be in. Not bad…

So, today is yet another day where I felt the need to drop $1,000 on software. Not just for me, thankfully. Some of it is for a new hire. He’s not full time, nor is he likely to ever be, but the paperwork is squared away, so it would appear that I’m going to need…

Tomorrow, I’m going to launch “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly“, inspired by a poker variant of the same name. This section will represent an engineering perspective into the world of business and marketing. I started writing a daily entry about it two days ago, and it just started growing out of control so…