The Light of Day

Two links and a random question
KeithHandy posted in Business, Funny ha-ha, Tools on July 17th, 2007

First of all, a couple of links.

Soundsnap is a site where you can upload and download lots of sounds. The terms are that you don’t have to pay for any of them, or even give credit, as long as you’re using them in something and not just redistributing the raw sounds to make money off of them. I signed up for a user account there, and have uploaded three odd sounds that happened to be collecting virtual dust on my hard drive. People actually seem to be downloading them, so it will be interesting one day to hear one of my boings or bleeps in an unexpected context.

Freelance Switch is a blog for people making the jump to freelancing. Notbythehour.com, which is associated with Freelance Switch, features a free PDF book about creating passive income streams. Say no to wage slavery.

Random thought: something that’s been bugging me for years now. A while back, I was browsing through a pamphlet listing “continuing education” type courses available in the area. One course was called something like “How to completely disappear without a trace and not be found by anyone, ever”. Another course was called “How to find absolutely anyone, anywhere in the world, no matter what”. They were both taught by the same instructor. Obviously they both draw from the same pool of concepts. The unavoidable question, keeping me awake every night for years until my brain a-splode, is this: Who wins? Shouldn’t at least one of the courses be subtitled, “unless they took my other course”?