I must be some kind of lucky, because Prelude Interactive seems to have far fewer issues with overdue or underpaid invoices than other firms. In eight years of intermittent freelancing, as well as more than a year of Prelude, I’ve only had two instances when a client couldn’t pay. These are their stories. The first [...]
I was tempted to wander around rhetorically for a few paragraphs talking about how to make choices about which nonprofits to support when you’re a nonprofit consultant, do you go with your beliefs, support your friends, or do you try to get leads, etc etc. But, that’s kind of dumb because the rad people running [...]
No, that title doesn’t connect to anything. I just wanted to reference the ouevre of Monty Python. But, I did hire a professional accountant for the first time this year. You might say it was a foregone conclusion after having to redo my own taxes for three of the past four years. Plus, in 2008 [...]
I attended the Austin Twestival last night; it seemed to come off successfully though I did not stay until the end. A lot of people showed up – Ace’s Lounge did not look at all empty by 9pm and the crowd only thickened thereafter. I had the honor of locking horns with @aaronmsb at inflatable [...]
I’m going to bloom into a perfect old dude someday, because even now, I only adopt new things with a fair measure of grumbling and wariness. To wit, I made fun of Twitter for months – mainly with references to ‘Twits’ instead of Tweets – before being shamed into accepting it at my first Austin [...]
