CT Biz Blogs

Yippee, I’m back. Gotta work on that whole work-life balance thing.

In Connecticut (the CT in CTBizBlogs), and in other parts of the world, I gather, we have this habit of taking stock at year end, and making resolutions for the new year.

It’s been a crazy time for me the past few months. I started this blog when I was not busy and not doing much that was creative. I had lots of pent-up energy, and I love to write, so posting was a thrill.

But now I’m on a project (non-blogging) where I’m writing every day, until my fingers and brain are tired. I found that it definitely impacted my desire to sit at the computer and write some more. This blogging thing can be work, and it can be tough at times. But it’s always worth it, when I put the time in.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve found that getting to the keyboard is tough. But once I get there, I have fun!

And as for resolutions for the new year, I’ve never kept one in my life, so I won’t even kid myself.

But one thing I do know — this year will be a year of choices, challenges, and changes. And I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Here’s wishing you all the best year ever.

Here’s to 2007.

I hope. It’s been a hectic few weeks. Victim of too much of a good thing (work, in this case). But I haven’t abandoned this blog, just neglected it.

But I’ll be back!

How time flies, as they say. CTBizBlogs is one year old today, August 13th.

When I started, I’d already been blogging sporadically in other blogs, hosted by Blogger, for over a year. But I was ready for more control and more options. So I plunked down some money, bought a few domains, got a web hosting provider and started posting.

I picked WordPress for 2 reasons — it was free, and my hosting provider, Dreamhost, offered a one-click installation.

Since then I’ve learned a lot about WordPress, web hosting, and blog writing.

When I started, I was full of pent-up posts, so it was pretty easy to pick any topic on blogging and just start typing. Sometimes that resulted in a good post, sometimes not.

Also when I started, my day job was in the doldrums, and I had not much outlet for my creative energy. Be careful what you wish for there — now I have more ideas and projects than time. That’s why I’m still using the older version of the Journalized template.

Here are a few of the things I’ve learned over the last year:

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I’ve decided to make the jump to “light speed” (reference to the first Star Wars movie) and upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.

While I was at it, I thought I’d try a new template (called “themes”) for the look of the place.

This isn’t 100% what I want, but it’s a start.

Next step: get some color into this site.

It was amazingly easy to update the site, and playing around with the sidebar elements was fun, too.

Now I have to go back and put back in all the missing elements, such as my proudly displayed “SOB” icon. I was one of the first!