Joost invites for all...

I found out this morning that my Joost account has been credited with 999 invites (I kid you not) so feeling all summery I thought others might want to join in the Joost fun and I’d share them around a little. I’ve only got 999 Joost invites so

Tim vs. a Swan

Those of you who have me on MSN Messenger (and use a client that displays my little sub messages) may have noticed today’s caption reads “Tim vs. a Swan : Tim 1 - Swan 0”. A few of you have asked what it is all about so I thought I’

A GREAT! New resource for freelancers and others starting out

I can’t recall how I came across FreelanceSwitch because it was one of those links you see on a mailing list, open to read later and forget to read until a couple of days/weeks later, but nevertheless FreelanceSwitch is well worth a read as they have a tonne

ASP.Net Membership SQL Roles access

We have recently moved over to SQL Server 2005 and as part of this transfer I decided to aggregate two separate ASP.Net Membership databases that were created purely out of error. For those of you who don’t already know, you can happily run more than application’s security

Getting more work done - Early Mornings vs. Late Nights

If you’ve ever been involved with running your own business or indeed any start-up you’ll know long hours are sometimes a necessary evil to meet the demand or even just getting things in order. Well for quite some time now I’ve been wanting to work out whether

SQL Server Delete all data

I expect many people already know about this technique but I wanted to share it with those that don’t. The other day I needed to remove all data from a database before importing data from another database. I usually use DTS to copy the data across but knew that

Rackspace -awesome managed dedicated servers

Seeing as I’ve had a number of posts recently that were, well, er slating/pointing out terrible customer service and/or service in general I thought it was about time I posted about the guys that did it right in my eyes (that and a couple of seriously cool

Discounts on organic aromatherapy products including essential oils and more

I don't want to be seen to be using my blog as another way of pimping out my client's services to my lovely readers -I'm really not, it's just that I've been so busy recently I've not had

Threshers do it again -another 40% discount voucher! This time for Easter

As you're probably aware, at Christmas the Threshers Group put out a 40% discount voucher for the Threshers Group, well it would appear they’ve decided to do it again so I thought I should share it again, as before, the Threshers Group 40% Easter discount voucher can

Simple accounting database

As part of my mini-series on Business start-up advice I posted a simple accounting database (see: Finances (VAT, Accountants etc)) but today I realised I had just uploaded the mdb which won't be served by IIS so I just wanted to let you know I've uploaded