It is now 4:30PM and I have just got back from the meetings. I got back about five minutes ago, and I have just had lunch. I prefer to have lunch closer to midday if at all possible. Unless I choose not to have lunch. I will not say what I did have for lunch but it was not McDonalds. I have been off McDonalds Hamburgers for about 5 years. Almost exactly 5 years now.

Both meetings were fantastic. The first one was some programming work that the client wanted to get done. This should be fairly easy, and I will probably outsource some of it.

The second one was more interesting, not only because of the challenge but also the dollars were bigger. I demonstrated some things, firstly on the internet and then using my own software. This worked really well – the client had an Unwired unit in their conference room and I used this. It really was as simple as 1,2,3, although with DHCP it took slightly longer to get an IP address. But I was certainly online within about 20 seconds.

The speed seemed to be good, although it was hard to tell from the work I was doing with it. All in all I spent about 2 1/2 hours with the client, and I really enjoyed the time with the client. Coming up with solutions to their engineering and business problems. I have to go back just after easter to spend some more time with them, and now also write a quick spec for them. This is the sort of work that I really love – looking at a business and then seeing what technolog can solve their business issues. What I also loved was seeing how my own product can be improved to meet this clients specific needs.

Music:

Australia Crawl’s “Hootchie Gucci Fiorucci Mumma”. Bette Midler’s “From a distance”