Hello, My name is JAYME.

So I found this neat little app on my phone that allows me to post entries to my blog! I’ve also installed a flickr app as well so I can take pics and upload them instantly. Pretty neat huh?

I’ve slowly dragged Kelly over to the good side. After being a faithful customer of Nextel (now Sprint/Nextel) for probably 10 years or more we’ve both decided to put the Motorola-driven Direct Connecting aside. It’s not that we dislike the beep beeps - it’s more that Nextel isn’t very expansive. You can drive around in the middle of Raleigh and have your signal drop out for 2-3 minutes at the time. I can’t even go to the nearest Walmart and get a signal (yes, I like Target better, but there isn’t one near me). I know that any mobile phone carrier has its flaws and their share of dropped calls, but it’s been 10 years and no improvement from Nexie nor any improvement on their phones. Plus I sound like I’m flying in a Blackhawk when talking on the phone with someone because the nerds at the Nextel store sold me a phone that had been on the shelf for a year. Great job guys. Anyway enough about Nexie - the cool thing about the iPhone is that it eliminates a couple of devices and serves many purposes. You can easily store your music, videos, contacts, voicemail among other things. Yes, I know - there are other alternatives to the iPhone but no one has proved to do it better than Apple. I’ve been made into a believer. Sooo… I’m waiting on the iPhone update that will hopefully ease the pain of integrating it into my in-car stereo system since I’ve sold my iPod. I’m truly not crazy about making the switch one of AT&T’s plans because they are ridiculously high priced, but if I can keep a signal the majority of the time then maybe it’s worth it. If anyone hears anything about an update, please let me know. We are both anxious to make the switch.

I’ve been a good little Mac user and doing my software updates every week but occasionally I’ll get an error when trying to install the actual updates. I get the following message: The update “QuickTime” can’t be saved. You do not have appropriate access privileges. The Installer package has been moved to the Trash. To try again, open the package from the Finder. I’ve most recently gotten that same message except it was for “iTunes”. Luckily the same fix works for both. Just go to your /library/updates directory and delete the folder for either QuickTime or iTunes, which ever one is being the culprit - and try downloading/installing the update again.

As my business has grown beyond leaps and bounds over the past year, I’m getting more and more inquiries. Job requests such as database structuring and php work are becoming frequent, but I keep turning them down. Why you ask? For starters, I truthfully do not know how to write php, ruby or any other dynamic programming languages and really don’t have the desire to learn them. Secondly, it can create a stressful situation when outsourcing this type of work to contractors, especially if you only know the contractor through the Internet. Dependable programmers are rare and typically hard to find as well. While most web entrepreneurs advise me to make the big bucks, a web development company must embrace both the creative beauty of making a website as well as the functional side, I beg to differ. I think it’s important to recognize your strengths and continue to improve upon them. Some would say that you should try to improve upon a weakness - I wouldn’t consider programming a weakness at all - just an area of expertise that I do not have. Maybe when there’s a demand for back-end work I’ll add such a member to our team, but right now the numbers aren’t urging it.