{"id":1101,"date":"2011-03-24T19:38:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2011-03-24T19:38:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:38:44","slug":"blog-failure-turns-to-happiness-plus-can-you-handle-all-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/03\/24\/blog-failure-turns-to-happiness-plus-can-you-handle-all-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog failure turns to happiness, plus can you handle all this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankyou Scott Fadick!, for alerting me to my blog giving some arcane error. I assume it was hacked, because I haven&#8217;t changed a thing, and wordpress was hugely out of date. Anyway, a simple one-click update to the latest version (things really have improved since I last went through wordpress upgrade hell), and it all seems fine again. Let me know if it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>That awful dread feeling I had when I&#8217;d finished a long (but very productive) days work, had a quick game of Battlefield:BC2, and thought it was time for a glass of wine and an episode of spooks&#8230;. and then to think the evening would be spent fiddling with databases and php&#8230;.Bah. What a pleasant surprise to have it fixed so easily.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble with being an indie is that such problems all become <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">yours<\/span>. If you are thinking of leaving a coding day job for indie software business, consider this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you want to be in charge of the design, code and management of your company&#8217;s website?<\/li>\n<li>Including the blog?<\/li>\n<li>And the forums?<\/li>\n<li>Do you want to be the one who talks to the accountant and works out stuff like VAT and corporation tax?<\/li>\n<li>Do you want to be in charge of choosing which subcontractors to hire, and haggling over how much to pay them?<\/li>\n<li>Are you confident your idea for a product is so good it can pay for your family for the next 2 years?<\/li>\n<li>Are you confident enough of financial success that you can set aside money for a pension, and if you are in the US, for private health care?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a lot of people, the answer to all of that is &#8216;yes!&#8217;, but they fall at this next fence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can you get out of bed promptly every morning, and go sit at a desk and do a full days work in your own home?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most people can&#8217;t. It&#8217;s generally hard, although I have various tricks to make me do it. One day, I&#8217;ll give a talk at some games conference about it. or maybe a series of blog posts. Hmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankyou Scott Fadick!, for alerting me to my blog giving some arcane error. I assume it was hacked, because I haven&#8217;t changed a thing, and wordpress was hugely out of date. Anyway, a simple one-click update to the latest version (things really have improved since I last went through wordpress upgrade hell), and it all<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Blog failure turns to happiness, plus can you handle all this?<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/03\/24\/blog-failure-turns-to-happiness-plus-can-you-handle-all-this\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}