I just came across http://www.workaholics4hire.com

Although they don’t state where their workers come from (presumably Estonia, India, Russia etc), it shouldn’t matter. What they offer is a means of reducing the tedium of your webmaster tasks, and therefore freeing up your time to be more creative…

We have compiled a team of some of the web’s hottest designers and scripting gurus to help you with a wide variety of webmastering tasks.

Our team can:

• Fix errant code
• Upgrade blog installations
• Make changes and tweaks
• Add scripts and interactivity
• Add and format content
• Create CSS driven site modifications
• Install web applications for you
• Install and fix opt in boxes
• Design or Re-Design any type of website
• And so much more…

Your “Webmaster on Call” is available for anything you need, but you’ll only be charged for the number of hours spent actually working on a task.

In actuality, you will only ever need to speak with one person…your own project manager. This person handles all the details for you so you only need to make one contact to have anything done. All work is supervised by the manager, helping you focus on your business rather than the technical details.

How it works…

You deposit $1,000 on retainer to lock in your Webmaster On Call account. The money is held in escrow until it is needed, and our webmasters continue to complete tasks for you (at your request) until the retainer is depleted. We’ll keep you up to date with reports that will include all account activity, and when your retainer is depleted, you simply add another $1,000 to your account.

We charge $25 per hour for all webmastering tasks.

I call it IDE (I Do Everything), and others call it Flying Solo - running your own business without any staff. This is such a niche category, and like dating sites, appeals to the lost & lonely - so FlyingSolo.com.au exists.

Ultimately it is a weekly newsletter comprising of well-written, helpful (short) articles. Looking at a random article I discovered a local offsite backup product called DataMate - quite cheap at $240/yr for 10GB. I reckon I trust Aussies with my data more than services from foreign lands…

I wish FlyingSolo should get a forum running - it would be vey popular.

In stayed at Raffles in Mooloolaba, one of the smart accomodation providers that offers wireless broadband in their rooms. I was eager to get back to work when I arrived there (beaches don’t appeal to me), but I couldn’t get my laptop to connect…

…I phoned support, and within an hour a young bloke (the same chap who answered the phone) was at my apartment and fixed it for me - all I needed to do was change my laptop to look for the B version of WiFi as well as the latest, which I think is G).

The company is AccessEzy (not EzyAccess, which is what I keep thinking it is called) - they supply a few hotels in each Australian city, and based on my singular experience I thoroughly recommend them…

…although I have to say I couldn’t get a few sites (like signing in to eBay) working via their service, but that could’ve been my laptop’s settings FAIK.