Sunday Again!

Not much to report here as I have had the week off to do lots of admin stuff and catch up on those things I never got round to doing! Have been catching up on a load of work with my computers and trying to learn more about using the software to build myself a website. I am using iWeb on my iMac computer. It's a great bit of software and once you have learned a bit about the program you can go on and design your own web sites.

Friends of mine say to me - well you are really good with this sort of thing so it's easy for you! In my experience of life - nothing is easy - it's the application of your brain and just hard work which makes this sort of thing come together. Hairdressers are the worst with IT & computers. Half the time they never check their email and managing their accounts is something left till it's too late (and I can identify with that LOL). So unless you devote some time to understanding your computer - it will never do what you want it to. After all how can we cut hair unless we learn the fundamentals and then build on our repetoir to continue to do our job? So what is the difference with your computer? So play around with it and learn how to use the damn thing!

I am getting into this new program by Mark Bell at www.cutshort.co.uk - it's brilliant and the more I apply myself to using it the better picture I am starting to get of my business. I actually now know how many clients I have; how many are men and how many are women - most of us don't even know that information! I even know how much they have paid me this year :-) As well as how much I earn each week; month or on a daily basis. YES I am getting a better picture of my business and it's helping me to change my bad habbits and become more efficient. Why not give it a try? There is a free trial to get you started and give you a taster.

I am lying on the bed reading Saturday's Times newspaper & have just come across an article in the body&soul news section entitled 'Splitting hairs can detect skin cancer'. Basically it was saying that a strand of your hair may soon provide an early warning alert to identify people who are in particular danger of developing skin cancer!

Did you know that each year in Britain there are nearly 2,000 people dying from malignant melanoma. It would seem that this number is likely to treble in the next thirty years. Italian scientists apparently are developing a quick and inexpensive way to screen people and determine their natural suseptibility to melanoma Dr Stefano Rosso of Turin's Piedmont Cancer Registry, says his system examins the light spectrum refracted by hair to find out how much melanin it contains. Melanin is the stuff thats in our hair and skin & it protects us from the sun's damage. Dr Rosso has written an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology - for those that want to look this up further.

I am looking forward to the FHBF INSPIRATIONS 2007 on the 10th of June 2007 in Solihull. It will be a great time to catch up with other freelance hairdressers (I hate that word 'Mobile Hairdressers') and see what is going on in the industry. I shall be meeting up with my old friend Paul Evans who I have known since I joined the federation. It's hard being a bloke in a profession that is mainy full of women. Wella are the sponser's this year (I love it when they do) and the guest star is Beverly Cobella!