Archive for September, 2009

The Mini-Vacation

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

When I was featured in one of Alex Fayle’s Someday Interviews a few months ago, I identified my biggest “someday” as taking a vacation and getting away. Shortly after that, Alex launched his Freelancer Vacation Clinic, an email course for people who find it hard to take a break from their [...]

Event-full Days

Monday, September 21st, 2009

It really shouldn’t surprise me, because it happens every year, but there is just no comparison between life before and after Labour Day. I’ve just had one of the busiest weeks I can remember in a very long time.
It started with my presentation Monday night at the POC Toronto Chapter meeting [...]

How Secure is Your WordPress Site?

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

For several weeks, I’ve been seeing warnings about WordPress sites being hacked, but I didn’t worry about them too much, since all my sites were already at 2.7 or higher. Admittedly, I was a little reluctant to upgrade to 2.84, having run into some problems the first time I tried upgrading a [...]

News You Might Have Missed

Friday, September 4th, 2009

A few months ago, I stopped mentioning when I have posted to other blogs, and began adding links to my other posts to the sidebar under “Addicted to Blogging.” It has recently crossed my mind that although this works for people who read the blog online, those of you who receive it [...]

It’s Fight Procrastination Day!

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Today is an important day, because it’s dedicated to an issue that affects each and every one of us at some time, procrastination.
Although procrastination manifests itself differently for each of us, I believe we all procrastinate at times, especially when a task or activity that takes us outside our comfort zone [...]