They say it is a good sign if you visit a freelancer’s website and they haven’t updated it in a long time, because it can be taken as an indication they are a) very busy, and b) so in demand they don’t feel the need to sell themselves too hard. Both these are probably true in my case, but still I carry this huge nagging guilt about my poor neglected portfolio, which now has approx 10-15 projects waiting to be added.

It clearly hasn’t effected the work flow anyway (which kinda makes me wonder if maybe I should just get rid of the portfolio entirely), but recently I have had some rather awkward questions from clients asking “so, what kind of work do you usually do”. If you looked at my portfolio, frozen in time in early 2008, you’d think my focus was eLearning. A year earlier it would have been games. But the correct answer is neither of these.

So, for the record, the kind of work I usually take on is probably best summed up as: “the meatier end of Flash”. Which these days usually means Flex, but not always. On anything else – industry sector, technologies, job size – I am usually without prejudice. Although, if you are an arms dealer wanting a Flash game about shooting Iraqis, don’t even waste an email.

Anyway, I’m not trying to hawk my wares here, just trying to preempt the questions. I’m pretty much booked up until xmas right now anyway, mostly due to my Generative Art Book. But that, is another area of work entirely …

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