AKA pianos in the bushes (as we, russians, are saying).
Last week my sister, who’s very good at income tax, called me and said that some of her clients were looking for a decent guy to help them with their web sites. I happened to be the appointed one.
Nice to know that sometimes good things tend to happen. Although the sites “there” are written for ColdFusion platform I don’t anticipate a huge effort to pay for reengineering them for Linux/PHP/mySQL…
Time will tell 🙂
Some times you get a request that’s just so plain impudent, that you can’t even say no… Consider this – guy asks for 2GB of space, 15 GB of traffic for free hosting. Fine, I don’t mind that, no problem. But the concept there is to get money from the ads to move to normal paid hosting. So not only he doesn’t consider my hosting to be “normal”, he’s telling me that once he’s done eating off my plate, he’s gonna go spend those money some place else. So he gets hosting, money from ads, people to his web site and I get – nothing?
Something’s not kosher here.
As we work on a brand new russian-speaking portal (in fact it is planned to be bilingual) I had a task for one of the designers to create a logo that would incorporate some sort of russian ancient hut, such as house built of wooden poles… Sounds simple enough, designer is russian, he knows what the hut looks like since 50% of all tales deal with a hut in a woods…
You have no idea what kind of strange and miserable constructions I was presented with. Just the least scary ones:
