I have this little curb painting business here in SoCal. It's a living, going door to door asking home owners if they want their street number painted on the curb in front of their homes. It's all in how you take off your cap and bring a knuckle to your forehead in a show of obeisance, and quaver out, "I say, guvner, (no, not her) paint yer curb?" That plus my winning smile and I'm able to keep our two boys in 2nd tier state colleges. It's not a Princeton/Yale living, but it's a living.
Anyway, I have a business website. I've had it for about three years. I paid someone to create it for me. I have zero ability to do anything with the website. I've been wanting to update it. On 2-01-08 I received a friendly email from my web hosting business, telling me about the wonderful upgrade they'd just done. It suggested I test my site. I did. The submission pages weren't working. Individual homeowners can submit orders on one page and HOAs and tract builders use the other page. Neither page worked.
I called the hosting service and was told by tech support that it was my problem. The simple, inescapable fact that it was their 'upgrade' that ruined things meant nothing to the young tech support person: my site, my problem.
So I turned to Rocket Studios, aka Katrocket. She switched me to a friendlier hosting service and built me a new website, one that comes with instructions on how I can do things on the extra pages she's provided. She was all the things one expects from a Mother Superior but seldom gets when it turns out you're not Catholic.
Now I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it just had to be said: Kat was my Rock(et) of Gibraltar. If you or someone you know needs professional (meaning you have to pay for the service) website building or remodeling, I insist that you ask her for a friendly, free review and quote. Plus mention my name and she'll add 20% to your fee and give me 5% of it.
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Ha! Thanks for the sweet plug, Bert! Your Czech* is in the mail.
* this joke stolen from Bert himself
kat's hot.
Yeah! Kat's got skillz and heat. What a gal!
I'd like to see some pictures of your work Bert. Do you just paint numbers on the curb?
Robert, most of my work involves numbers on curbs, but occasional I get free rein to add whatever border I think is called for. It's a minor art form, but an art form nonetheless.
For days, and even weeks, after I've completed my passage through this mortal vale, my work will endure.
That Kat is one talented lass. I'm just mad someone else already stole my idea to put pornography online.
What happened to your other buisness?
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