Articles that do not belong to any of above categories, dilemmas, controversial stories, weird customers and other strange messages received from my website visitors.
If anyone knows where I can find list of childcare centres please tell me! I had at least 2 people contacting me and asking the same, while Elvin never answered me at emails to say where he managed to find the list in another website.
Most visitors of this website are ADULTS, some of them businessmen, respectful people that knows to start a chat with me ONLY IF you want to buy something, pay a service, or need a professional consultation.
But a small number of visitors are kids, especially the Housing around the World section seems to be popular among American school children looking for information about other countries for their school paper. This small number of kids cause a huge nuisance.
Every day, I am contacted by few people from Singapore for info about HDB and chit-chat, I am also contacted by people all around the world for architecture / CAD design services. I differentiate customers by chit-chatters by the way they address me and by what pages they click. Look how THIS guy is addressing me!! Sometimes I mistreat chit-chatters as potential customers, but could be this a potential customer, mistreat as chit-chatter and lost?
I decided to publish these stuff here so everyone can see what creative talents I had during my 1990s childhood before the era of computers and internet (especially today kids who spent most of time on mobile phones and computers, playing games, Facebook, Instagram, etc).
My HDD crashed on 1 October 2019, despite of paying $330 to data recovery company, the loss of data was significant and this incident forced me to STOP taking new projects for next 3 months to get back on track with existing projects.
I share the terrible experience had with a customer, a Romanian web developer with poor communication skills I am the author of a project never done in Romania, similar with HDB Database previously made for Singapore. Singapore government does provide data on several websites and I only needed to combine them into a single database. Romanian government does not have a consolidated database, but only partial lists of buildings expertised for seismic retrofit, allowing scams on resale market (sellers claim that their building is newer than it actually is). So I decided to research OpenStreetMap and Google Streetview to create myself a database, containing street address, GPS coordinates, number of floors and apartments, year built, floor plans, etc. Like car models facelifted and replaced every few years, the communist government of Romania also launched new apartment building models every few years, once I know year of a building I can assume that all identical buildings are from an interval of +/- 5 years. Not precise, but better than nothing. I started this project in 2018 for Ploiesti city, and since 2019 I am expanding to other cities. Bucharest took me about 500 hours during 2020. Sadly, I haven’t done any… Read More »Bad experience with a web developer customer