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I am currently working on a brand new project.  I have approached this new project in a completely different way than I would normally do.  I have a plan, schedule, and budget.  The schedule necessitates that I can`t do all of the work myself, which is fine because I made a budget for that.

So some of my content has been outsourced, and it is going great.

My site design template was outsourced, well kind of, I simply went over to templatemonster and picked one that I thought would work well.

My first landing page was outsourced, now I don`t really think that it is the greatest, but that is more my fault with direction than that of the designer, and the price was very ~affordable~.

However I needed to get my Wordpress theme developed to match the template that I picked out.  So I headed over to DP and made a post.  I got a few great offers, too good to be true actually, so I dumped them.  I got some over the top and dumped them too.  Then I picked one that seemed great.  The guy wrote with decent English and wrote respectfully, and the price was mid-range.

However, I would not be writing this post if all went well.  This was supposed to be a job that took no more than a week, it has been more like three, and the guy doesn`t seem to be that interested in getting back to me in a timely manner.  I am starting to think that he has gotten his 50% upfront so now he doesn`t care.  I pay my bills but I am seriously thinking that I need to have a discount on part of the service that I am receiving.

What have you done when your out sourcing project has gone wrong? When the person on the other end of the inter-web does`t give to shits that you have a schedule to meet and knows that they will never meet you face-to-face?

I spent about 15 minutes this weekend trying to figure out why my image align isn’t working with new Wordpress.  It looks cool, but I just couldn’t get it to work without doing it my hand.  Then today I was catching up on my reader and found a great post from Daily Blogging Tips .  Here they explain exactly what you have to do to get your image align to work in Worpress.

It is really simple really, you just have to add the following to your stylesheet.

img.centered {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

img.alignright {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 0 2px 7px;
display: inline;
}

img.alignleft {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 7px 2px 0;
display: inline;
}

.alignright {
float: right;
}

.alignleft {
float: left;
}

It is that simple.  So now get out there and fix it.  And add Daily Blogging Tips to your reader.

What is Kiva?

Kiva is a person-person micro-lending website.

Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions. In doing so, we gain access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide. Our partners are experts in choosing qualified entrepreneurs. That said, they are usually short on funds. Through Kiva, our partners upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site so you can lend to them. When you do, not only do you get a unique experience connecting to a specific entrepreneur on the other side of the planet, but our microfinance partners can do more of what they do, more efficiently.

How it works

It is a real simple process, simply get an account, add some cash via paypal (you know you have some in there).  Then you can browse the available loans, and pick an individual that you would like to support.  Once you support the business that you are interested in, you watch everything happen.

When the loan term is complete the money that you gave out is put right back into your account so that you can then use it again to start a new loan, or withdraw it.

So what are you waiting for?  Get over there and get yourself started, make sure that you tell them that jeff{a}hosernews.ca sent you   And if you are interested in viewing my profile simply click here.

Well that didn’t take long.  I guess I have a real problem.

I am going back to Twittering, but I will be sure not to be using it as I was before, a play-by-play of my life.  Instead I will be using it as a micro-blog.  I have a lot of little ideas and tips that I think of during the day, but don’t think that they are “important” enough to write a full blownblog post.

Don’t get me wrong, it is not that these things are useless, it is j
ust that they are tips and unless I put together a bunch of them there is not really a point to fill someone’s RSS reader.

So, Join me on Twitter and find out what life lessons (and affiliate business) I learn, as I learn them.

I was trying to get some work done at home today, but for the life of me it was too nice outside.

You can work anywhere, including a pub with free wifi and music. So I did what any smart Haligonian would do, I headed to the pub. The Old Triangle was my choice.  I walked around the town and this was the only place that had free wi-fi.

I tried the Aliant Brand that was free up till recently.  It really sucks that most of the places that had free wireless in Halifax switched and now you have to either already be an Aliant customer or pay a huge amount to get online….I might as well stay home.

If you are downtown today, come on by, I am probably the only one working on a computer