This week, we have been so swamped at work that we have actually shipped a higher volume of orders than we did at the peak of Christmas. Apparently, this bolus is not limited to our retail traffic.

On Wednesday, a freelance gig came in on the answering machine – I’m still evaluating the labor requirements versus my free time before committing. Any readers out there with current downtime and agency production experience coding HTML, please drop a line in case I need to pass. It’s not a hard job, but may require more time than I have available. You will need to have Photoshop and Dreamweaver and Fireworks and should have experience creating HTML under an art director or within an advertising and design agency as a production person. If you haven’t in the past, this is most definitely not the job to learn on.

The other gig is an experienced developer position at a well-known local house that provides varying levels of end-user with real estate tools. The toolkit was specifically identified as ‘open-source’ and name-checked PHP, MySQL, etc., etc. It’s a gig that’s too dev-oriented for my skillset, but surely there are candidates out there reading this.

Naturally, this is also the week that the third issue of the magazine is in planning. Most happily, my editor and I knocked out the content definition stuff in about twenty minutes on Tuesday night.

Additionally, I call your attention once again to the Siffblog, which is ginning up. The contributors over there last year had a great time and I know I very much enjoyed reading the blog. A group blog about a film festival the size of SIFF might be expected to provide some amusement.

Finally, I jimmied the header link set, my sidebar, and this blog’s about page to more effectively reflect my current range of activities.