the plan until blogathon starts
Wow, what a week! I can’t begin to imagine how exhausting (but incredibly enjoyable) the weekend will be but even so I have been trying to prepare for the blogathon while still cursing about the hosting still not being perfect.
The worst was when I tried to get the sidebar in place for the Blogathon. I don’t know if this has happened to anyone before and this is the first time I complain about WordPress (which hurts me deeply as I adore it) but when you make changes to a template that is live the changes don’t take effect until you change the template to another one and then back again! I even deactivated the WP-Cache plugin to make sure that this was not the reason that it was happening. Now, in all fairness I hadn’t attempted to do this on a live template in almost a year but last time I did, it worked! Could this be a bug in the latest version of WordPress? Could it be a server issue? Anyone?
Now, as I am really pressed for time and I have been very busy with work, dates (okay it was just the one) and a special party tonight only for me (I will say more about these tomorrow), I had to plan my every step. Here’s what it looks like:
Tonight:
- Party but try not to stay out too late or get too drunk
- When back home, post about how the winners will be selected and what will be offered to them
- Get some of the information you will need for certain posts
- Go to bed as early as possible (by then it will be past midnight)
Tomorrow:
- Wake up at 10 and take the first shower of the day
- Don’t drink coffee
- Go to the super market and get all the junk you can find on the shelves (get something nutricional as well just to shut up the voice of guilt that will be serenading you)
- Go back home and prepare first post
- If brain is not working drink coffee
- Once the first post is done continue with collecting the information you need
- It’s 2pm. Time to Blog A ‘Thon!
Hopefully I will manage to do this, if I don’t it will be because I will have a hangover… Pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster I don’t…
In the meantime you can still sponsor me!
Update: I posted this in a hurry and forgot to use a title or even edit myself… It’s been fixed now.
Related posts:
Blogathon ‘07 :: finish line! Thank you all!!!
Blogathon ‘06: i’m giving out 5 mastheads, info on how to win them below
blogathon ‘07 kickoff! child abuse awareness post #1
blogathon ‘07
there are still nice guys around! and they don’t finish last!
Andrew Odlum said:Hey Colin,
My name is Andrew and I am going to be your monitor for Blogathon this year. That is right, you are stuck with me for 24 hours. Don’t worry, it won’t be too painful. I will be checking up on you during the night and littering your posts with my comments. I will try to make at least a few of them clever or insightful.
I look forward to checking out all of your insight. See you tomorrow
-Andrew-
Commented on July 27th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Colin Brooks said:I’m sorry you had to witness that! It must have been the worst first impression ever! I posted it in a hurry and sneakily while at work and didn’t have the time to proof read what I wrote…
It is good to meet you Andrew! Welcome to my blog and I hope you enjoy monitoring therapy in the making. I have a few fun things planned which, hopefully, will keep you entertained.
Here’s to a great blogathon!