User: valdez70

My little experience

On: Ways to Beat the Telecommuting Blues?

I did work from home for the last two years:

• don't sleep where you work
• don't eat where you work, take your time to prepare lunch, go outside
• use a different phone line for your work, never give your home phone number to your clients! If possible, use a cellular phone.
• spend one day a week to find new clients
• give yourself a time limit, no more than 8 hours every day, no more than 5 days a week
• you should ask more money, you are not a salaried employee and your main source of money may disappear suddenly!
• make it very clear with your relatives/friends that you are working, at home, but you are working
• join some online community to discuss topics related to your work (for example perlmonks.org)
• spend some time every week to learn/study something new and useful for your work
• be very diligent with your backups!!!
• find any form of tax exemption or reduction applicable to your situation
• remember, you are the manager of yourself :)

Ciao, Valerio

The right choice

On: Advice You Would Give to Your 12 Year-Old Self?

Get a motobike instead of an Apple ][c

Ciao, Valerio

Re:Not there yet...

On: Italian Police Censor "Blasphemous" Websites

Stop for a moment. If you don't like something is your right to say that. On the other hand, is not your right to insult others' beliefs.

So the solution is: be constructive, not offensive.

Re:Relocate

On: Italian Police Censor "Blasphemous" Websites

Pages are hosted in USA, and still visible if you
bypass their homepage.

Property for lifetime

On: What's The Future of DRM?

I accept to pay some royalty, but i want to own something. My biggest concern is: will i be able to read my future ebooks after thirty years? Will there be the correct reader after thirty years? Software industry seems to say no, for example the war for standards. More, hard-disk crash is similar to have your house burned. Will i be able
to lend a book to my sister?