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A Big Change – Becoming Self Employed
May 22nd
After working silly hours for the last few years, in an effort to satisfy the demands of my day job as well as the needs of my part-time business, I’ve finally bitten the bullet and decided to take the business full-time. Not that I’m earning enough to really be able to afford it yet, nor because it’s a safe bet, but purely because I’m ready to take the business to the next level and just can’t do so while my focus is split between two, very different roles.
I made the decision whilst on holiday in Spain earlier this month (thanks to Henry for listening). Being removed from working all the time gave me a chance to think through the situation properly, and make some decisions about where I want to go from here.
I’m really looking forward to the challenge and, although I’m a little scared of the difficulties that lie ahead, I’m optimistic about the future and know I’m making the right decision.
So, I’m currently working my notice at the day job and am getting ready for kicking-off properly with the business expansion. The next few months are going to be hard work and I expect, also provide some very interesting experiences.
Hopefully I can pull in enough pennies to pay the bills and keep myself fed while building the business. If not, does anyone know if the Red Cross do parcels for budding entrepreneurs?
Wish me luck 
Lib Dems for 2010?
Apr 14th
For the first time in my life I’m wavering away from voting Labour in a national election: there’s been too must dishonesty in politics in recent years and I no longer trust Labour like I once did. The Conservatives certainly haven’t come-off any better and I’ve not voted for them previously as their values just don’t match with mine.
The remaining party is, of course, the Liberal Democrats but am I really considering voting for a party just because I dislike them the least? Well, no: they actually appear to have spent a lot of time working-out how to improve our country and their would-be chancellor Vince Cable really seems to know his salt.
This is the first election in living memory that people are not automatically saying that “a vote for the Lib Dems is a wasted vote”. Maybe we could actually see a radical and positive change in our government.
Like me, you may as of yet be undecided and I urge you to visit the Liberal Democrats’ manifesto and consider a party that has now become serious candidate for our potential future:
What are your thoughts?
Ben’s gone all WordPress
Jan 23rd
With being a .NET person, I’ve persevered with BlogEngine for a couple of years but have always been disappointed with its functionality; which possibly explains why I’ve not posted much in the last year.
After hearing so many good things about WordPress, mostly from the guys over at AI Digital on their Internet Marketing Podcast, I’ve decided to make the switch.
So here I am, an hour or so after install and I’m running a blog with infinitely better looks (thank you Digital Nature) and functionality with very little effort at all. WordPress has even been happy to import all by old blog data via RSS, though I had to manually get old comments in.
This of course forces the question, why the hell haven’t I done this before?
