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Well, I have good news, and I have bad news. The good news is that I fully expect the web site to be completely functional by July 1, 2001. The bad news is, well, I missed my 40th birthday deadline.
Now this is not completely due to my own procrastination. You see, a few weeks ago, I decided that my brick-and-mortar bank (which will go unnamed) was charging me entirely too much money to do business with them (over $15 in fees each month to use their bank online and bill pay services/check card fees/service charges, etc.).
About this time I got this neat promotion from NetBank offering me $50 to open a checking account there. So I did. (Gotta love an extra $50 you know). PLUS, they offered me all the services I was using at my offline bank for FREE. PLUS it is an interest bearing account with no minimum balance requirements.
Sweet.
Anyway, I decided to go through the heinous process of switching banks. Now... when you're as connected as I am, I have automated almost every single payment I have to make each month except for the paper check I write out for rent. Since a lot of these places only take payment in the form of credit/debit card (although more and more are accepting ACH transactions), I had to wait to get the new Visa check card from NetBank.
This is what delayed my plans. It seems that even though the web site *said* that the card was ordered on 5/18/2001, it wasn't. I didn't find this out until several weeks later, and then I had to place an order for the card and wait for it arrive. It finally did on Friday.
Now that I had the last piece of plastic in place, I was able to do much of my "switching" on Saturday. Then I had to figure out how much money I actually have left over after paying all my bills. That feat accomplished, I could turn my attention to my web site.
A while back I had signed up to offer co-branded e-mail on my web site. However, they've come up with a new package to offer fully-branded e-mail for a minimal charge ($10/mo.). Since I would prefer to do this (as all the ad revenue generated off the banner rotations would be mine), I had to make a request to upgrade my e-mail service. This also requires changes by my hosting company. Since neither of these behemoths seem to move very quickly, I will miss my self-imposed deadline of today.
In fact, I'm currently waiting on a phone call back from everyone.net (my e-mail partner), to *get* the information I need to submit to icom.com (my hosting service), so that I can unveil my lovely free e-mail service when my web site launches.
Ciao for now, work abounds...
Now this is not completely due to my own procrastination. You see, a few weeks ago, I decided that my brick-and-mortar bank (which will go unnamed) was charging me entirely too much money to do business with them (over $15 in fees each month to use their bank online and bill pay services/check card fees/service charges, etc.).
About this time I got this neat promotion from NetBank offering me $50 to open a checking account there. So I did. (Gotta love an extra $50 you know). PLUS, they offered me all the services I was using at my offline bank for FREE. PLUS it is an interest bearing account with no minimum balance requirements.
Sweet.
Anyway, I decided to go through the heinous process of switching banks. Now... when you're as connected as I am, I have automated almost every single payment I have to make each month except for the paper check I write out for rent. Since a lot of these places only take payment in the form of credit/debit card (although more and more are accepting ACH transactions), I had to wait to get the new Visa check card from NetBank.
This is what delayed my plans. It seems that even though the web site *said* that the card was ordered on 5/18/2001, it wasn't. I didn't find this out until several weeks later, and then I had to place an order for the card and wait for it arrive. It finally did on Friday.
Now that I had the last piece of plastic in place, I was able to do much of my "switching" on Saturday. Then I had to figure out how much money I actually have left over after paying all my bills. That feat accomplished, I could turn my attention to my web site.
A while back I had signed up to offer co-branded e-mail on my web site. However, they've come up with a new package to offer fully-branded e-mail for a minimal charge ($10/mo.). Since I would prefer to do this (as all the ad revenue generated off the banner rotations would be mine), I had to make a request to upgrade my e-mail service. This also requires changes by my hosting company. Since neither of these behemoths seem to move very quickly, I will miss my self-imposed deadline of today.
In fact, I'm currently waiting on a phone call back from everyone.net (my e-mail partner), to *get* the information I need to submit to icom.com (my hosting service), so that I can unveil my lovely free e-mail service when my web site launches.
Ciao for now, work abounds...
