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Done with PhotoFYI.com - photography, portfolio and the rest. Now I will be able to showcase my works.

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• Sometimes things appear out of nowhere Dept (March 21, 2005): AKA pianos in the bushes (as we, russians, are saying). Last week my sister, who's very good at income tax, called me and said that some of her clients were looking for a decent guy to help them with their web sites. I happened to be the appointed one. Nice to know that sometimes good things tend [...]
• Small business in Chicago (November 27, 2007): Yesterday I have returned from a Thanksgiving trip to Chicago. Aside from matrimonial errands (my friends were getting married) I had a chance to communicate to a lot of different people from various social groups. Aside from regular chit-chat I was inquiring on the cost of living. Obviously you can get data from various web [...]
• Programmers (December 13, 2004): Sometimes some people can set me off, even though I am very patient and calm person. First they didn't like the project. Then they didn't like the terms. Then they didn't like the payment amount. Then they didn't like the payment time frame. Had to give in to the last resort - mentioning that they are [...]
• How I ended up thinking of indian guys (October 29, 2004): There's this friend of mine, who says he used to run two of largest Russian immigrants message board communities in the past. We got acquainted when he found my forum and I found his. We both (with our associates and fellows) went to fancy place called banya (Russian bath) and had an idea of joining [...]

The Epson PictureMate Personal Photo Lab is great! Photos turned out superb, nice colors and good quality. Definitely was worth the money paid…

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• Zealus.com is back! (April 12, 2006): Zealus.com is back and better then ever :)Now the site is being driven by CMS, portfolio and contacts are updated and guess what?! We've got ourselves nice toll-free numer (long overdue)!Call us at (866) 4ZEALUS or (866) 493 - 2587
• Yahoo holds its ground (February 12, 2007): Last week I subscribed to Yahoo music. Yeah, I know. But I was going to give it a try anyway.Surely, the service sucked from the very beginning - you have to download a special player (called Yahoo Jukebox), that downloads tons of crap while playing my purchased music. This itself is a very fishy concept [...]
• Windows Live Writer (August 15, 2006): Turns out the whole idea of having a desktop app to manage and post to blogs surely wasn't a bad one. Microsoft had managed to come up with a tool that is compatible not only with their own MSN Spaces, but with LiveJournal, WordPress, MovableType and even Blogger (this post, if successfull would mean it works). [...]
• While you were sleeping… (May 16, 2006): Skype has introduced free calling within US and Canada. I am currently testing both Skype and Gizmo, even bought phone numbers from each service, so people with real phones can call me too :)So far the testing shows that Gizmo still has plenty of space for improvement. Call quality is inconsistent - I got three [...]

One of my clients for whom we are doing the web site now went on design rampage yesterday. We gave him three drafts, he chose one, we started working on them, polishing minor details, etc… Everything was fine until yesterday night I got a message from him. He said that he finally figured out what he wants and attached the draft of the web site he thinks very professional and just great.

Although I am not questioning his taste (we’re children of different times and cultures, so I think he has a great idea that I just don’t get yet), but the colors… the layout… the whole idea of professional web site that looks like pinball game… I definitely should lower my requirements to designers who want to work with me… They are great, it’s me who’s crazy…

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• Radio Ga-Ga (April 3, 2006): One of the problems while dealing with clients - is the problem with clients that don't know what they want. A client I work with on initial drafts (in fact it's a group of 6 people, most of them - women of various ages) has rejected six initial drafts - more or less original from my [...]
• Problems, problems, problems. (September 22, 2005): The real-estate web site that I have moved to a newer server suddenly started acting up. The JavaScript stopped working, but not all the JS on the whole site. Just one little piece that by not working pretty much makes half of the site useless. Moved back because of the annoyed client. Next step - putting [...]
• Clients, clients, clients (October 21, 2004): "Client doesn't know what he wants until he sees what he gets" - that's sooo right! They had this terrible yellowish design with tons of useless flash buttons and very heavy scripts... Yuck! Now it's going to be stylish, neat and clean... and they hesitated because they used to old yucky thing... poor them, they don't [...]
• Chat is operational! (November 29, 2004): Now the chat for Generationnx.com is operational. Little left to do - redesign the header of the web site and design the new forum. After that the project will be 100% complete.