So, I’m considering buying a cassette tape converter. (which doesn’t always mean much – I’m good at talking myself out of spending money most of the time.) I’ve already re-bought some most of my old tapes, but I’ve got a bunch of mid-90’s folk, filk, and renfair tapes that are either completely out of print and unavailable or are out of print and expensively hard to get.

That’s not a huge hardship. I only get a real burning urge to listed to them every few years, (ah, nostalgia) and we do still have a tape deck in the house, but 1.) these are old tapes and every run though the player degrades them a smidgen more (not that I took stellar care of them back when…) and 2.) I’d have to dig though the damn closet to get to the storage bin, and that’s a lot of work for something I’m going to have to re-pack into storage. Also, 3.) I am quite used to digital convenience by now and would like to use some of these tracks in a modern (ipod-esque) manner.

So this may be one of my spring/summer projects. If I don’t get distracted first. :)

Yes, time to mock another craigslist ad. (God, I’m such a cynic…)

We’re looking for someone who is facile with setting up web sites, installing scripts, cpanel, email autoresponders, web 2.0 sites

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

AND, who wishes to learn internet marketing techniques including on page and off page SEO, list building, article marketing, membership sites, etc

We want some magic pixie dust to make our website better. Actually, we just bought the pixie dust, but when it doesn’t work, it’ll be your fault.

This is an ideal spot for a student just starting out.

We prefer a blank slate we can brainwash. Also, we’re going to pay peanuts and students work cheap.

Most of the websites will be constructed by others but need to be installed on our hosting accounts and adapted to our business systems which include tracking, linking, building content and backlinks, etc.

We just dicked over our last developer. Hard.

You will have the opportunity to learn internet marketing techniques, specialized internet marketing software, and observe/learn from senior web designers.

Want some kool-aid baby?

This is a paid position.

Technically.

Skill at copy writing a plus (article rewriting, sales copy, web site content, blog posting/commenting, etc.)

You will wear many hats and grow to resent them all.

The site’s gonna look a little halfassed for the next few days. I’m tweaking around with comicpress and (for reasons unknown, even to me) will be doing it live. So yeah, pardon the appearance.

Oh, look what I found. I needed a laugh today.

Looking for someone to set-up a rather simple web site

Simple is as simple does, you know. And client!simple almost never corresponds to actually!simple.

and then train me on how to update it

Oh dear. I did that for a client once. It ended poorly. Sometimes i even think about sending them bags of flaming poop.

have the domain names already and quite honestly COULD do it myself, no time as I am in start-up and have other demands upon my time

This is always a bad sign. Clients who think they can do what they’re hiring you to do almost never value your work appropriately. Either they can do the work and really are that lazy (and will probably nitpick you to death) or can’t do it but think they can, leading to the land of unrealistic requests (because it’s so easy, you know). And “in startup”? Er, no. It sounds like he’s got a “great” idea and nothing else.

probably take a true pro less than an hour with a 15 minute break for coffee

So anyone who takes longer than an hour on your incredibly vague, undefined project is not a pro. Really. I do assume you have all the images and copy ready to go, and just need a code monkey to lay it out, right? No forms or interactivity at all, yes?

Yup. Laughing now. Also, it’s good to remember why I don’t do much freelance anymore. (And thank $deity that I don’t have to.)