Still in Limbo
This is largely because my life has been pretty mental over the last 2 weeks and isn’t about to ease up with work for both real-job and business off the charts. Happily, I’ve taken next week off real-job in the hope of playing some catch up!!!
In the meantime I saw a tweet from Gina Trapani about the first blog that inspired her to become a blogger (if you don’t recognize her name, you’re not reading lifehacker (http://www.lifehacker.com), and dangit, you SHOULD.
Anyway, I thought I’d throw this out there…
What or who inspired you to blog? Will you go back to your blog and post an entry about your first blogging experiences and who the blogs were you read way back when? Are those early blogs still being written? Do you still read them?? I’m dead keen to find out, and am formulating a post along these lines for you too!!! I’m sure commenting will be back up on Saturday, it’s my first job to do… but until then, if you post and you see your blog in the blogroll over there, I’ll get your post in my rss reader and will be along to comment… if you want to play and your blog isn’t in my blogroll send me an email to deeleea**gmail.com (you know what to do with the stars, right?;)
*It won’t be until I get my sorry carcass into the backend to do some solid testing of the MT installation – only THEN will the host lift the limits on me… fascists.
Monumental Crash
NOTE: Comments aren’t working while the host still restricts access to the cgi scripts… sorry… am working on a whole new migration plan that ought to be best for all of us in the long run.
Erm… it’s been quiet around here (more so than usual) AND it’s been impossible to comment BECAUSE I had a rather impressive server snafu.
As in my Movable Type installation (apparently) crashed the server – oh, and because it’s a shared server… it wasn’t just my account that was affected…. yeah… Dee got sent to the badlands by her web host as penance/punishment….
I know, you could care less about the technical reasons. I’m writing this up in case Kangaweb or Sixapart pay any attention to what’s being said about them in the blogoshpere.
Ok, that’s a little unfair, Sixapart clearly do as they’re following me on Twitter and messaging to ask if they can help. This is very good and one of the reasons I still <3 Movable Type.
Kangaweb? Not so helpful… I’ve been with them a looong time and while I’m not so blind as to think MT couldn’t be causing the problem, their manner of solving the problem has been less than helpful, and truth is, a little defensive.
Furthermore, I have been offered some rather good services over at TPPInternet – you can’t go past having your own personal account manager you can talk to on the phone… one that has a side kick who’s a real live tech guru, right, oh and one that lives in your neighbourhood…
I didn’t think so… and no TPP are not a small fiddly backyard concern… these guys have some big guns… oh, and did I mention they’re fast? They’re really fast.
So, gradually, I’m making the switch…
Which is going to mean some changes around here… I’ll keep you ‘posted’.
Vote 10 for Dee!!!
I’ve up and entered a local photo competition which relies primarily on public votes… so I’m sending out a shout to my blog peeps to get some momentum going… will you be my BFF and click the linked image above to go and vote for my pic??
Sorry, it’s not easy to link directly to it… so below is the image you’re looking for… and if you go now then it should still be in the recent uploads category… if you think it worthy… please give it a 10!
You’ll need to register to vote so they can make sure that we’re talking individual votes here… but you’re under no obligation to receive the Manly news updates!!!
Thanks team, I’m pretty pumped about the comp… the prize is some Canon gear (which I can trade up to Nikon, of course!!). Muah!!!