10 Semi-Random Thoughts
Posted on June 19, 2007
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1. I’ve got the freelance bug, badly. I don’t know how I’m going to make it work, yet, but I will be freelancing full time within the next five years. If I can get my act together financially, I will try to advance that to two years.
2. I wish my bank were open late more than one night a week. I am in desperate need of loonies to do some laundry!
3. I’ve got the travel bug. If I can make the freelance thing work, I can travel and work at the same time. Freelancers can work from anywhere!
4. I need a new computer. Maybe I’ll go for that laptop after all (once I’ve got the money for it).
5. I have become mildly addicted to the IRC version of Werewolf. I will play less often once we stop having thunderstorms every night.
6. I’ve written some very awful verse lately. It’s crap, but at least it means that my writer’s block is finally coming to an end.
7. I really want to go back to Cuba, but I think it would make more sense to see a different country first, before I go back there. Maybe I’ll go to Europe in a year or two.
8. My youngest brother is turning 18 on Saturday. I still think of him as being a 15-year-old kid. It’s very strange.
9. The CBC–specifically CBC Newsworld–has become my favourite network for two reasons: On the Map, and The Hour.
10. I’ve started to dig deeper into the guts of Google at work; it’s surprisingly interesting. Apparently, I’m a huge geek.
BONUS:
11. The style sheet for this template really seems to hate lists (ordered or unordered), and no matter how I try to play with it, it doesn’t seem to render them properly. That alone is enough to make me consider dropping this theme altogether. I like lists! (Yes, I know this is a crappy bonus.)
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Freelancing is cool but also stressful. Getting paid is the big issue. If you’ve got good clients, that is, those that pay in 30 days, then it’s awesome. Unfortunately, most companies operate on a net 60 basis these days. Really sucks for freelancers.
RE: Lists. Your stylesheet resets all margin and padding to zero. This might place the list bullet outside the left margin of the div. You could style lists quite easily by simply resetting the padding & margin on the ul’s and ol’s i.e.
ul, ol { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 2em; }
Or something like that. I’m sure you knew this, though.
I realize that about the code, Mike. The problem is that even when I set the padding and margins properly, I can’t get it to actually show the bullet points and/or numbers in the list. It’s probably something very obvious that I’m overlooking, as tends to be the case when I have problems with CSS. If anyone can tell what the issue might be from checking the source code, I’d appreciate it.
As for freelancing, I agree with you. The limited freelance work I’ve done in the past was all based on 60 days. That sucks when you’re first starting out. If you manage to get a stable client base, it should eventually cease to be an issue after the first couple of months, because by then should have money rolling in every month. The biggest issue is getting a steady enough client base for the to happen.
Like I said, I haven’t worked the details of it yet, but there are too many things I want to do in my life that I simply can’t do sitting in an office working for someone else 40 hours a week. It’s still a long way off. I have to build a portfolio, a client base, and a “safety fund” to keep food on the table during the transition phase that will likely take place between quitting my day job and receiving my first freelance cheques.
It’s not necessarily the most profitable way to live, but more and more, I’m starting to think it is the best for the lifestyle that I’d like to have.
Yeah, I’d like to freelance at some point as well. I think the freedom it affords would be worth it.
Getting back to the lists. No idea. Looking at your stylesheet, it contains nothing that should cause that behavior. List bullets (or numerals) should display as normal. Maybe try setting the list-style (on ul) to sqaure or something. See if that works.