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Almost 150

There are almost 150 people that receive my daily inspirational quote right now. And that means if I want to keep using my current mailer, a plugin that I made for this purpose, I will have to send the e-mails in two batches soon as my hosting provider only allows 150 e-mails per hour to be sent from one account or one domain.

And actually I am getting a bit proud, as even not so many people have subscribed to the daily inspirational quote as I started with just adding people I knew and got e-mails from to the mailing list, there have been quite some people who used the subscription method provided in the site. And also people are using the unsubscribe option in the e-mail, so actually there are more, maybe quite a bit more than 150 people, knowing about this site and about my daily inspirational quote.

And no, I’m not really satisfied with the site and the project yet, as I have no clue on how to earn money with it. Or at least not lose money with it. Or stated in a better way: I have the feeling I did not receive anything really (in return for all my effort with this site and the sending of the daily inspirational quote.

But well, I’m not even two years on the way with this yet, so who knows what comes out of it. And as indicated before, this site, this project, and my related Dutch blog do help me, do give me ‘something’ in return, like analysis and yes, some pride. As it is not nothing, doing something every day, except Sundays.

So yes, I guess I can still be proud of myself for at least doing those daily things. And then I forget writing the mailer, which took me quite some effort a while ago.

And the weird thing with the last is that I am just using it now, every day. And it is a very efficient way to send the e-mails the way I want.

So yes, I hope you appreciate it, somehow, the things I do. Even though my writing is not always that interesting, not that inspiring.

So thank you for reading my posts and stuff. And thank you for receiving and maybe reading my daily inspirational quotes.

A good day

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Today I think was a good day, even though I found that the problem with my new hard disk is bigger than I thought.

But I can still work and most of the data is just there, even though I prefer to have some more safety like copies of all my important files and such.

But well, that is what all my safety is for, for situations like this. And it should be possible to move for a while without all the safety in place I would want to.

So yes, a good day.

Planned too much again, but I did it!

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I planned a bit too much today, but I did it again, even though I was distracted by all kinds of little problems with the site of Eigen Horeca Makelaar that has just been upgraded to a system including data entry screens.

And I was thinking a bit about how this all started, how I apparently was able to satisfy the customer in the end, a customer who is not easily satisfied, but who gave me some compliments the last few days which made me feel really good. Or actually I was not really thinking about the start, but of all the effort I did to keep this customer, like trying to satisfy all his needs. And from a business point of view that may not be the wisest thing to do, but just thinking right now, yes, I think I can be very proud that I kept this customer, against all odds, including being far away in The Philippines and never being able to see him and his team.

And it was a difficult road, that felt like I gave too much, as this is a very demanding customer and I often give away too much. And even the last few days were still demanding, as there were more little things that needed to be solved than I expected, even though technically the upgrade of the site was a very large upgrade. And the customer experienced more problems than I expected, but still, right now, yes, I think I can be proud of myself that I pulled this of. And I guess I already gained a lot of respect fixing all kinds of little problems over the last year or so, and with some things the last few days I think I just confirmed that I am worth it, no matter the problems.

So where to go from here? Actually I have no clue, but I hope with this project I confirmed that I can deliver, even though there are still many minor things I would like to be solved, like to be better.

Well, time will tell, and yes, I made a decision to follow the customer, satisfy the customer as best as I can, no matter the cost or the time or whatever it takes. That is and will be my business model from now on, just be the best in custom made web applications. And it the saying is true that you will reap what you sow, then somehow this must come back to me, in the form of positive things. As I did my best, no matter what.

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Well, so today one of our internet connections was restored. And it was done by someone I know and who works for Globe. And he did and had done quite some effort and it seemed he had bypassed some procedures and stuff. And the weird thing is that after we had checked if it was all working, as officially it was not really supposed to work, I felt relieved and didn’t feel anything anymore about all the good intentions I had about improving the world and large companies and such. As my problem was solved and I could just continue as usual. So yes, I was very happy, but it was also a very weird feeling that I had nothing to do anymore as my problem was solved. So gone were all those sleepless nights, all those visits to internet cafes, all those things I couldn’t do properly for customers as I had no proper internet access.

But then I said to myself I shouldn’t give up. As what happened here the last few weeks was exactly what I think should not happen with anybody dealing with a large organization. And it was weird as I had planned to start my draft letter to the CEO of Smart, my second letter as I did not get any serious answer to my first. And as I think that what happened to me should not happen to anybody. And as I think organizations, also large organizations, should serve humans and not the other way around.

Added February 23, 2014:

Just found some more, so maybe no wonder my letter was not answered: poor service Philippine Internet Service Providers. But I won’t give up and a second letter is in the making, to Globe and to Smart. As I think things in The Philippines should improve. Please let me know if you want to help or support my cause to improve things in The Philippines, even though recently thoughts come up to indeed leave, as things seem to be really, really bad here compared to the rest of the world. But leaving would mean giving up, so no, I won’t. I’ll go on trying to improve things.

But weird, as my problem was solved also my intention, my feelings related to improve the world seem to have gone. So yes, there is a reason for those things, for the things that happen to us, the negative things, the challenges.

As it makes us move.

Thank you Universe, thank you, for giving me those problems the last few weeks. And for giving me this feeling right now. So I know better what to do and not to do. So I can analyze why I do things and don’t do things. And why others do things and don’t do things.

Thank you.