Archives for the 'Administrivia' Category
Cranking Widgets Theme Updated! [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
I hope everybody is doing well, and thanks for hanging in there during the last few weeks.
Just wanted to invite everybody (especially those of you reading this via your favorite RSS reader) to come by and take a gander at the new look. I’ve completely redone the layout for this site, the [...]
Happy Monday: Odds, Ends and other Minutiae [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
I hope everybody had a fantastic weekend! I’ll start by apologizing (again - seems like I’m doing this an awful lot lately) for the slowdown in posting over the last week - some personal events had most of my attention during non-work hours. Thanks for hanging in there, I’ll be posting new and [...]
Coming Up: Somebody Interviews Me [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
I thought this might be a cool thing to mention, especially since I haven’t ever been interviewed for this productivity stuff. This weekend, my new buddy Mike from Effing the Dog and I will be having a friendly conversation that will go out on his podcast at some point in the near future. [...]
Site Update - Recent Silence Explained [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
I wanted to drop a quick one to keep everybody informed as to the dramatic (well, ok, maybe “noticeable” is a better word) drop-off in posts here. Due to a looming deadline, all of my time has been occupied with my job - 14+ hour days, weekends, the whole nine.
Trying to find [...]
Celebrating Cranking Widgets’ First Birthday [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
Sure doesn’t seem like it, but today marks the one year anniversary of the first post on this here blog. Wow.
I must admit, this blog is doing better than I would’ve imagined way back then. We’re doing a respectable 3K+ subscribers and roughly a thousand pageviews per day. And while that’s child’s [...]
Back Online After the Digg Assault [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
Just a quick one - the previous post (The Definitive Guide to Covering Your Ass) hit the digg homepage 2 days ago, which promptly brought this little blog to it’s knees. After several go-rounds with my webhost’s support staff, things seem to be back to normal.
Anyway, apologies for those who tried to get here [...]
State of the Blog [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
When I started this blog all those months ago, I really had no idea it would do as well as it has. We have a pretty respectable number of feed subscribers and page views and consistently high-quality comments. Among all of the fantastic productivity-themed blogs out there, I like to think we’ve carved [...]
Blog Review Contest Winner! [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
Well, better late than never, I suppose
Thanks to all of you folks who submitted reviews for the contest. The response wasn’t as overwhelming as I’d hoped, but that’s just good news for the people who did participate!
As promised, the winner would be chosen completely at random using a home-grown program that [...]
We’re Back! [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
For a reasons I don’t know, I decided to upgrade Wordpress (the software the drives this here blog) yesterday. Anybody in the software business knows that you don’t make any large changes (like big upgrades) on Friday because you don’t want to spend all weekend fixing it if (read ‘when’) it breaks.
Well, it broke. [...]
You Know, I’m a Terribly Interesting Guy… [The Cranking Widgets Blog]
And for that reason, I know all of you are just itching to chew the fat with yours truly.
So, being the benevolent, emotionally available blogger that I am, I’ve added a couple Meebo widgets to this here blog that give you, my dear reader, immediate access to me. Check the left hand side [...]