I'm an independant software developer, though in the last 7 years I spent 6 years working for the same customer ( http://www.onyx.com/ ) designing their CRM software, so "independant" is stretching it a bit. Just spent the last 8 months working on back end software used to drive various holiday company websites ( http://www.parkdean.com and http://www.leger.co.uk/ ). I am now working on a tool for analysing MIDI files for http://www.gigajam.com/ . Hoping to go back and work for Onyx again later in the year (assuming they don't got bust or get bought out in the meantime).

I work from home a lot and even when I'm in an office the people I choose to work for tend to be very understanding, so checking the BBS occasionally has never been a problem.

I'd hate to work for one of these companies who frown on people checking a website a couple of times a day, yet allow smokers to stand around chatting for an hour or more a day...

P.S. thanks to my current project, I'll probably be asking questions here about midi and musical notation soon