Freelancing can be really interesting, you get to often do different types of work that can vary widely, from very hands on mundane tasks, to consulting, research and report writing, and everything in between. Sometimes you can even get a section of a project that you can work on at your own leisure, as long as you meet the nominated deadlines. Other times you are just an extra pair of multi-skilled hands. It’s never a dull moment.
The other day I went to get my business cards reprinted, you know it’s a thing you do from time to time, and with that process you naturally review the information on them.
Now I have two sets of business cards. One set I hand out to the general business owners, potential clients and so on. The other set I distribute to agencies, the web industry and IT people.
We are in the height of summer here at the moment, with regular daily temperatures around 30-35C. With the heat comes the risk of bush fires. Now this may not be of a concern to those of you living deep within the ‘burbs or in the inner heart of a city.
However for people such as myself that live close to large tracts of urban bushland or on the edge of suburbia, this is a very real and constant threat. During the summer months, you are constantly aware that you may have to evacuate with only a few minutes notice.
Cloud computing is all the buzz at the moment, another trendy topic, but it isn’t that new in relative terms, either is the SaaS models, having grown out of the ASP model of the last century.
But you know despite being immersed in all this web “stuff” from day to day, I just have this nagging feeling about the information we put out in the cloud. Is it really that safe!
At the Edge of Web Conference colleague Stephen Collins in his Enterprise 2.0 – A New Age of Aquarius? talk touched on the social aspect of SaaS and that most of his software that he uses is in the cloud. Leaving very little in terms of desktop software.
Gary Barber
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