Any port in a storm

I guess I'm sure to update this once in a while because sometimes I forget
to bring a book with me on the bus.

That doesn't mean nothing ever happens, just that when things *do* happen I
am usually too busy to take note of them here and by the time things calm
down enough I don't remember (or care?) enough to blog them.

Actually I have more to say now that I am here, but it deserves a separate
entry. Meanwhile the search goes on for an affordable but useful digital
camera for Leah and ditto MP3 player for Akiva. I have leads on both,
let's see what develops.

And my nephew still hasn't managed to visit, so I still can't comment on
the Linksys wireless access signal booster as I had hoped to.

I met with a potential new client for web hosting. He's going to need a
small site but a big database and a nice chunk of bandwidth. I'm going to
have to develop a special package for him but it's probably worth it for
exposure.

Business has been slow, and it looks like I am going to lose a big
customer. He has lots of sites and uses a contact management system to
build most of them. While it is totallycompatible with my systems, it is
big and complex and he is going with a host that provides support for this
product and who will bail him out if he gets into trouble with it. This
means I will almost certainly lose all customers of his that use that
product, and if he decides to let them host them all, it'll be a big
setback.

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