David Journal

Tag: work

  • Possible Opportunity

    —

    by

    David
    in

    I talked with two of the founders of Cloud Matters today about the possibility of working with them. It might involve full time work for some pay and some equity in the company or it might be part time work for no pay and some equity. From what I have seen they have a product…

  • Tossed About Again

    —

    by

    David
    in

    While working on the last few things to be ready to launch I stumbled upon a review that pointed to a kids email service like what I have been building. After all our searches something comparable finally shows up. Unfortunately it’s been around for years and does everything I can do plus everything I had…

  • Ready for Payment

    —

    by

    David
    in

    As I had hoped I got the site ready to take payments. I’m not ready to advertise but if someone came to the site now they could pay for the service. I also made it so that from our login screen an account holder can log into their account and manage it and a user…

  • Finishing Touches

    —

    by

    David
    in

    Another 9 hours of work today (total of 66 now) has enabled me to provide a webmail interface for users and set up an account with PayPal to receive payments. I am working on implementing a payment button and a donation button for the site but I am ready to start talking about the business…

  • Hurdles Cleared

    —

    by

    David
    in

    During 6 hours of work today (57 hours invested) I got the mail server functioning, caught and fixed a bug in the password reset page, and established our terms of service in preparation for rolling this out. I now need to get a workable theme and start some more extensive testing. I’m not sure how…

  • Crossing the Pass

    —

    by

    David
    in

    I have been struggling for three days trying to get postfix to authenticate a password from Thunderbird without saving the passwords in plaintext. Today I finally solved that and now I find that I missed a setting to allow for authenticating for smtp (receiving messages is pop3 or imap – which is working). Once I…

  • Leaning Into the Wind

    —

    by

    David
    in

    I have come to the conclusion after this last week, especially as I look back at that last year and forward at the directions we are going, that I may not make noticeable progress spiritually or financially for the foreseeable future. I had two of the hardest years of my life while I was serving…

  • Business is Community

    —

    by

    David
    in

    I finished registering the business today and was able to change the official start date of the business so I can count the six hours that occurred before the 27th of June. After taking the fourth off I worked only three hours yesterday and five today so I have now invested $120 and 36 hours…

  • Reading and Writing

    —

    by

    David
    in

    Five days ago I lost my job—again (second time in three moths). I had already been pursuing a business idea in the evenings for a couple of weeks and Laura and I felt that the correct direction for our family would be to build that business. It should be able to support us within a…

  • Journal 14 October 2011

    —

    by

    David
    in

    Today was a big day as, for the first time in my life, I ended a professional, salaried position by my own choosing. It was interesting that I left before 2:00PM because there was nothing left for me to do. That seems fitting considering that my expectation that they would not be able to keep…