2011-05-06 (Friday)
Writing
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Updated: A Beginner’s Guide to Freelancing
I’ve updated my long guide to freelancing.
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Two billion viewers
Did two billion people really watch the royal wedding?
Comments I've posted on other sites
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Two billion people and the royal wedding: pretty damned unlikely - Boing Boing
“starfish and coffee”, you’re assuming a (perhaps ill-judged) throwaway comment for the purpose of…
Links
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Topsify - Top 40 chart playlists for Spotify
Exactly what I was after — I feel I should listen to the Top 40 once in a while and maybe this will help me do it. But the charts are in the “wrong” order, with number 1 first.
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A beginner’s guide to freelancing (Phil Gyford’s website)
I’ve updated and expanded my lengthy guide to freelancing (originally written 2006). More stuff about limited companies, other tips, and mentions of Twitter.
Tweets
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BBC should have kept TOTP going even if the current viewing figures were tiny… it's an investment in footage for use in the future. Serious.
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@realmonkeybear I'd never have guessed some of these bands would have been on 'Top of The Pops'. PWEI?!
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Oceanic, 'Insanity'. It's only a short step from this to broadcasting old episodes of 'Hitman and Her'. Retro can go too far.
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With @maryloosemore watching Madchester bands mime on 'Top of the Pops' in 1991 on BBC Four. TWENTY YEARS AGO! 20!OMG!! Singing along.
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<tipsy>Isn't London great.</tipsy>
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@infovore I think PHP has a top-level function especially for that. Well, chances are.
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The sound of applause echoes across Shoreditch. “Is the bubble back?”
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My ‘Beginner’s Guide to Freelancing’ is now updated: http://bit.ly/mvIhsJ Thanks for feedback. Let me know of anything that could be better.
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@corinthino Very good point - done! Thanks.
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@dracos You could certainly have a “near full time commitment” plus another “near full time” job. (LOL! Tell another one!)
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@corinthino Well yes, that’s my point - it’s nonsense :)
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@chrislunch @dracos Man, I can’t wait for your stand-up gig Chris. It’ll be a right laugh!
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@dracos I take “unemployed” to mean “having no job at all”. Which implies the lost councillorship was the person’s only job.
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eg “the vast majority of Councillors have full time jobs, families and hobbies” http://bit.ly/kYz2B3
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@dracos No - I could be paid £100k a year for an hour a week (I wish) but it doesn’t make it a full time job. I’m talking time, not money.
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@dracos Seems like schmeems like. Would be genuinely interested to see how many have full time jobs too.
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@dracos Yes, but... I bet being a councillor is not a “job” for very many of them at all.
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@chrislunch LMFAO
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Did two billion people really watch the royal wedding, as the news says? Me, writing: http://bit.ly/im9oSy
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@chrislunch I’m perfectly aware of it, but “unemployment” doesn’t seem to apply :)
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@chrislunch You seem to be assuming that being a councillor is an actual job, rather than something done in free time.