Back to blogging

Following on from Mat n Kat's example, I have decided to start blogging again. This is an interesting time for many reasons, on a work front all the staff at our company were made redundant on Monday 28th June, which is the predictable conclusion of our trigger-happy "ConDem" government's cost-cutting. All the projects we had lined up have been put on hold indefinitely, and we just can't move fast enough to re-position ourself into the private sector. Charity IT projects are rapidly moving onto crowd-sourced, open source solutions, thereby depriving us of a valuable revenue stream.
The government departments we work for are literally crapping themselves with fear at the prospect of 25-40% budget cuts, and not a penny is being spent at the moment. This will, naturally, mean that towards the end of the financial year, there will be massive amounts of unspent budget up for grabs, and the usual last-minute flurry of tenders, but that's all around 6 months away - no use to us at the moment.
So, I'm now indulging in my least favourite activity: job-hunting. Liaising with IT recuiters. Sending out CVs into the great unknkown, to be read by all and sundry. Hoping that a word-of-mouth recommendation will come through... and knowing that thousands of people are in the same boat. At the back of my mind I've got a nagging desire to set up my own company, producing websites for local businesses and organisations. The most satisfying projects I've ever worked on have been small, shiny, fast turn-around sites. You get a real sense of achievement if your work goes live within a couple of months, rather than dragging on for years and hiding behind a login screen, which happens on most of our projects. I need to get myself in gear and register a small company name... any suggestions?