I sell ASP components on the web. The income barely pays for the web hosting, and customers can be a pain in the butt, trying to get me to do custom programming for them in the guize of "support".

I have another idea to try because of some "inside information" about a certain niche. However, it is more to hone my PHP skills than earn a buck.

I was even thinking about going into art. However, art is too crowded a field. I found out that even poor artists get laid relatively often (for their income level), thus money is *not* the driving factor: people go into it for the chicks, not the money. Thus, you are competing against a bunch of dicks, literally.

I just got off of a temporary stint, but as time goes on I might try more and more desparate measures. For example, pose as an overseas developer and work under the guise of a cheap foriegner for an outsourcing agency. I would rather get min. wage in programming than in flipping burgers. I hate repetitous work.
(Can burger flippers listen to a radio while they work? Which min-wage professions can?)

Good Luck on your jurney

I don't see why they make web services into something complicated. I once made a "service" where an auction listing service spider picked up our auction data. It simply went to a certain URL and that returned an HTML (think XML) list of open auction items.

One could send URL parameters. Something like:

auction.com/exportdata/export1.asp?fromdate=12_12_2000&todate=04_15_2001

Use "post" instead of "get" for longer stuff.

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