Internet freedom does not mean free Internet
By Primal Sneeze ~ September 16th, 2008. Filed under: Internet, Plonkers, Work.
A guy I know approached yesterday me about setting up a website for a horseracing syndicate he and nine others have just formed.
He explained the requirements:
We want the name to be theladsfromthepubracingsyndicate.com. Dot COM is cheaper than dot IE, right? It’ll have a password and only the ten of us will be able to get at it. We want to have news about the horses - races they are entered in and how they did - that kind of thing. We want pictures from the stables and the racecourse. And video. New stuff every week. You can take the pictures and the videos and put them up. We’ll have the trainer text you every morning about how things went on the gallops and you’ll put that on it too. Three of us will do the other news part. The other seven won’t be able to put stuff on it.
So can you have it ready tomorrow? I’ll pay you up front. Right this minute. Here.
And he placed a €10 note in my hand.
How much change did you give him? Come on, there’s a recession on and he’s paying cash!
@Conan Drumm - €9.99. I kept a luck penny.
Not many pints for €10!
@Grannymar - You mean pints of milk, I assume.
A bargain no doubt. I’ll give you a fiver if you write my blog for me!
What odds did you give him?
So did he win his bet?
@Conortje - Ah com’on! That’s less than what you’re paying the current scribe.
@Quickroute - I gave him two chances: Slim and none.
@TheChrisD - He was serious. Seriously. He’d seen an ad somewhere saying dot COM’s could be had for €5 or €6. The rest would take me a minute or two on the computer for which he was generously giving me the price of a pint.
Up front! That’s great. It took me years to get any money up front.
@Eolaí gan Fhéile - Yep, I sure struck it lucky there.
I can guess which end of the horse he owns - the tight arse.
@Caro - Like a lot of wealthy folk, he suffers from short arms and long pockets.