Last night I started to realize that I don’t have a dedicated credit card for my business transactions.  Sure I have enough cash to cover just about everything and I do 90% of my online business through PayPal, but I have been finding more and more that I think that having a CC to buy that offline stuff that it takes to run an online business would be great.  Especially since I do all of my business stuff through my own name so that I don’t have to register a business number and all of the headaches that takes.  I simply claim all of my earnings on my tax return, however for the last couple of years it wasn’t a big deal since I was able to claim expenses and have the business be revenue neutral.

This year however I don’t think that I am going to have that luxury.  I have not had as much time to do investing in online properties so I have been accumulating cash, which is not a bad thing, it just means that I am going to be taxed on it at the end of the year.

Last night I had a pleasant surprise, my new bike was home.  I have a friend building me a new bike since I wrecked my old one.  I have been without for about 2 weeks, and it has been tough.  I don’t think that it is “finished” but it is more than done to get me around before the snow starts to fly.  And then I can get all of the bells and whistles finished.

As for my CakePHP project, I haven’t had a lot of time to spend on it.  I am starting to think that it would be much faster to drop the MCV, but maybe that is simply because I am not sure what I am doing yet.  I am going to work on it as is until the new year,  I think that I should have a good BETA online by then.  In the meantime I am going to start to work on a front end.  This is going to be a ready made CMS, probably Drupal since that is what I know, however since Mambo is going Cake I may decide to look at that for this site, since I am going to have a cake install anyway.

Well I think that I am just about ready to unleash The Bluenoser Forum to the world.  I have completed adding the topics that I would like to discuss, and am just about finished the Quick Reply Mod.

I am however going to simply Keep the default theme for the time being.  That is something that I am going to change when I do the redesign of the entire site.  It is going to be a lot of work to get the site on the go, but I am going to be looking forward to discussing the topics that I picked on a daily basis, and I am hoping that others will feel the same way too.

For a sneak peak go to http://forums.bluenoser.net I know that the the logo isn’t right, that is something that I have to fix soon and will.  Registration is open so if you don’t want to wait till the official opening, then don’t

If there is anything that you would like to see added please let me know and I will see what I can do.  I am not going to install many mods other than the quick reply since phpBB 3 should be coming out by the end of the summer and I am going to upgrade to that at the soonest.

Some may try to tell you that the weather in Nova Scotia, and probably Canada in general sucks, but I LOVE IT.

Summer is by far my favorite season, the sun, the warmth and the feeling in the air that can’t be explained.  I try to go swimming and camping as often as I can, and I get out of the office, both day job and at home, as often as I can.  You may ask why I don’t move somewhere south where the weather would be like this all of the time, but that answer to that is simple.  The Summer is so great here BECAUSE we have winter.  Just like you would not have light if there wasn’t darkness.

If you didn’t have winter to compare the summer to you would never appreciate it to the extent that it deserves.  Another example is someone who works for government and complains that they have to work too hard.  They should try working in the private sector for a couple of years and see how they last.

In closing come a experience Nova Scotia Summers, you will not be disappointed from the weather, the people and the scenery

I am planning on merging this blog, which is currently only a Webmaster Blog with my Nova Scotia Blog www.bluenoser.ca The reason for this merger is that I currently don’t have the time to maintain 2 different sites and promote them to the point where I am happy with their growth.  Instead I am going to make a new category in this site and move all of the posts there.  I will point the other blog to that category and will continue to add relvant posts there.

Along with this change I will be introducing a forum to the site.  This will be a hybrid Webmaster/Nova Scotia themed forum that I will be starting to promote early August.  Hope to see all of my readers get involved.

We have a new provincial leader in Rodney MacDonald.  Sure he has been running the show for a while now, but now he can truly say that he got in on his own and wasn’t simply given the job by his pre-decessor, which was the case.

I am still not 100% sure if I think that this is a good thing.  I can be sure that I am glad that Mr MacKenzie didn’t get in, and I am not sure if I like Dexter.  The only reason that I am leary of MacDonald is his age, which is weird considering he is a number of years older than I.  Actually I had him a gym teacher in high school.  That’s right our premeir was a GYM TEACHER, not a lawyer or doctor but a teacher, and not any teacher a GYM TEACHER.  This is one thing that when I tell people for the first time they simply don’t believe me.  But it is very true.