I've decided to set up my own company and become a contractor. There are
quite a lot of decisions to be made, but the hardest one I'm finding is
thinking of a company name! So far my only ideas are simply Shiels or
Shiels Consulting; this is fairly obvious, and I already own the
shiels.com
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:22:44PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
FYI, this domain is about to expire. So if anyone wants it, snag it.
I was going to transfer it to bulkregister (my preferred registrar)
but simply couldn't be arsed.
It's a cute domain. I haven't seen a domain expire and go to
Hi everyone,
I don't know it is polite to use this as a channel to get work but needs
must.
My (own) company is going thru' a lean time and we need
temporary/contract/fixed price work, preferable performed at my office here
in Bath. I've several years PERL/mod_perl/Apache skills and 20 years
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From: Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: perlismybitch.com
Yeah, I don't know why that is. There are even 'domain watching'
services where you can be notified when the record finally
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:34:19AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
It's a cute domain. I haven't seen a domain expire and go to back to
available in a reasonable period for quite a while, though; they're kept
on as expired records for $bignum amount of time. :-)
Yeah, I don't know why that is. There
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:27:42PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:28:42PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Don't forget that even if you could automatically change the API over,
you'd still have to change all the SQL in the API as well. Which is
probably just as
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Unfortunately, due to the slovenly fashion in which most places
(coughNetwork Solutions/cough) seem to update their whois databases
this stands a good chance of being too slow against somebody else
registering it.
I
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
Trouble is, they all have non-standard extensions, which are *really* handy
and which you *will* use if you don't know any better. For example, MySQL
has AUTO_INCREMENT fields which are dead useful for id fields; the closest
Oracle equivalent
Mark Fowler sent the following bits through the ether:
Why you say don't know better, what should I use instead of this. Is
there any sensible way to do this in bog standard SQL that won't have a
massive perfomance hit on mysql?
The nice thing about SQL is that there are so many standards
on 25/4/01 9:02 am, Robert Shiels wrote:
I will
mainly be doing SAP work, but hope to get other IT work too, so don't want
SAP in the name.
I came up with Diatom Consulting for an ex of mine (mainly a SAP sysadmin).
Old chemistry and physics books are good starters, as are other languages.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:50:05PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
Trouble is, they all have non-standard extensions, which are *really* handy
and which you *will* use if you don't know any better. For example, MySQL
has AUTO_INCREMENT fields which
Chris Heathcote wrote:
Mega-Shiels 2001 Ltd.
Shiels-Up! PLC
Cheers,
Philip
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All opinions are my own, not my employer's.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
From: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Chris Heathcote wrote:
Mega-Shiels 2001 Ltd.
Shiels-Up! PLC
In a similar vein, how about 'Green Shiels Temps'?
It has a certain ring about it to those of us old enough to remember reams
of the things being dished out in Woolies and the like.
* at 25/04 09:02 +0100 Robert Shiels said:
I've decided to set up my own company and become a contractor. There are
quite a lot of decisions to be made, but the hardest one I'm finding is
thinking of a company name! So far my only ideas are simply Shiels or
Shiels Consulting; this is fairly
Just had a look at the registration for the forthcoming TPC5, and notice a
fair few London.pm'ers are attending. Nice :)
However, also had a look at the Hotel costs. Thankfully I wasn't drinking
anything at the time. Seeing as I'm having to pay for this years trip out of
my own pocket, would
* at 25/04 13:15 +0100 Jonathan Stowe said:
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
I've decided to set up my own company and become a contractor. There are
quite a lot of decisions to be made, but the hardest one I'm finding is
thinking of a company name!
Get the domain off Paul
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:02:16AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
How did contractors here come up with the names for their companies
Your main choice is between sounding established, professional or
informal.
Established companies contain merely names, and give no indication of what
they do:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:39:38PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
I thought of Shiels IT Services,
but one potential acronym of this is not very pleasing :-)
Well, that might be a feature, you know. After all, it's what a lot of people
think of when they think of contractors.
--
Simon: `hello
From: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 April 2001 13:15
Subject: Re: Company Name
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:02:16AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
How did contractors here come up with the names for their companies
Your main choice is between sounding
Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nice summary. I was going to go for Shiels, but there is some plastics
company in Lancs that have it already. I thought of Shiels IT Services,
but one potential acronym of this is not very pleasing :-)
What about Shielsa or Shielsia?
(OK they sound
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:39:38PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
I thought of Shiels IT Services,
but one potential acronym of this is not very pleasing :-)
Well, that might be a feature, you know. After all, it's what a lot of people
think of when
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:14:02PM -0500, will wrote:
An old boss of mine wanted a domain that was expiring in a few weeks once so
he ran a cron task that checked the status of the domain every hour and
automatically registered it when it became available.
That's how we got kitsite.com,
Quoting Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Nice summary. I was going to go for Shiels, but there is some plastics
company in Lancs that have it already. I thought of Shiels IT Services,
but one potential acronym of this is not very pleasing :-)
Oh yeah, I trust you know about :
Hypertext
on 25/4/01 5:25 pm, Paul Makepeace wrote:
If you read
the small print they threaten to disconnect service if whois info isn't
accurate. Pity you have to supply perfect info for spammers.
I think that's fair, like accepting mail to postmaster@, hostmaster@,
webmaster@ etc. It's not like email
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:51:59PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
on 25/4/01 5:25 pm, Paul Makepeace wrote:
If you read
the small print they threaten to disconnect service if whois info isn't
accurate. Pity you have to supply perfect info for spammers.
I think that's fair, like
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:51:59PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
on 25/4/01 5:25 pm, Paul Makepeace wrote:
If you read
the small print they threaten to disconnect service if whois info isn't
accurate. Pity you have to supply perfect info for
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:15:38PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
I've decided to set up my own company and become a contractor. There are
quite a lot of decisions to be made, but the hardest one I'm finding is
thinking of a company name!
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