Hello Cleveland!

Or not.

A lot has happened in the last few months. My apologies for ignoring you – you pack of snarling, vicious interwebulitees. Yes, that’s my word. Print it out in a really big sans-serif font. Study it. Learn to spell it. Scan it back in. Make it your desktop picture. Print it out again. Frame it. Repeat.

Here’s what’s up with me. The short version.

I quit Microsoft and started a new company.

Well, two companies.

First, GreenTongue Software. See that wheeled contraption over there? That’s the iPhone app bandwagon. See that goofy guy climbing hand over hand up the wagon wheel and perching himself on top of it? That’s me. I will now proceed to drink a Mai-Tai and start complaining about XCode.

Second, Slam Dunk Consulting. We help micro businesses get on the web. Fast. A micro business is a very small company. Like one to five people. Or less. Yes, less than zero, wise ass. The company has negative one people. Can I continue now? Anyway… lots of these micro business have no expertise in internet technology, and they don’t know how to get it, or don’t want to get it, or they don’t know who to trust. Many of these folks can barely get their e-mail, much less know what SEO or social networking is. And they’ve likely had bad experiences and lost lots of money with shady goombas and shysters selling .com juice. And, of course, everyone needs to be on the web. Now. And likely they need to be on the first page of google or bing or yahoo searches. They depend on it. What Slam Dunk Consulting offers is prepackaged solutions to solve all these problems at reasonable prices, with quick delivery, all done by trustworthy and ethical people, e.g. me and other folks I’m working with. Including my dogs, who are getting pretty good at editing MX records (cheap labor paid in bacon strips per hour).

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Timmy got stuck in a well. Er, I mean, since I left the mothership, the stock price has gone up. Random uncorrelated fact. Also, I’ve been working hard under contract writing a really really cool iPhone app. I can’t tell you what it is, but I will. At some point. And you’ll want it. And you’ll get it.

Of course also I’ve been learning about running a small business. Lot’s to learn. Who knew accounting was so annoying?

Stay tuned. Radio silence has now be broken, and stay tuned for regular broadcasts on this frequency. Frequency Mike.

Over and out.

(Yeah, yeah, photography blog FAIL. Move on.)