A HUGE Post
Last night's Liverpool-Celtic Match was fantastic - and I'm sure there were some tears in some Irn Bru after the match end. Liverpool's play was very encouraging with a storming attack and very nice, tight passing. Riise's goal in the first 5 minutes was actually a bit of a shock (to the fans as well as Celtic) and Owen's first half goal was a vintage Owen tip. Murphy did an excellent job of feeding Cisse for two goals and even Henchoz scored! The end result was 5-1 and Celtic looked like crap.
I have been asked on a number of occasions recently how it is that I now can manage to come up with so many comments and links for my daily weblog. I have even have had complaints about the new high level of activity on my site following from months (years) of inactivity or sporadic postings! (for which I also had complaints from the same party). There are two parts to the answer. The first part of the answer is simple - I now have better posting technology. With the current solution, I can very easily grab a web link and add comments from within my browser or send emails to a special address that directly posts the message text to the site. A web log entry now takes seconds or a few minutes as HTML formatting, archiving and uploading are no longer tasks I need be concerned with. Archiving had always been a particularly cumbersome task.
The second part of the comment issue is that it is reflective of my daily routine - every morning I sit down at my computer and...
1. Login and open my Outlook mail.
2. Delete the 50-100 spam messages that make it through my spam filter
3. Read any client or prospect messages.
4. Respond to my Important Dates Reminders
5. Look in the Web Downloads folder and flag recipients
6. Look in the Information Requests folder for leads and delete spams (this hangs Outlook)
7. Open my personal email (respond and delete spam)
8. Open my LFC Toronto mail
9. Go to theToronto Sun website for News and SG
10. Go to Doonesbury on the web
11. Go to the Liverpool Official Site
12. Go to the Globe and Mail website If there is a story or topic that catches my eye, I'll go to the BBC Word News for more details.
13. And then finally, I go to Neal's Blog
Any of these activities can get me looking at other stories, topic or sites which is one reason why my topics may seem so disconnected (another reason being my own randomness of thought). Throughout the day I also get fed links and stories from friends and coworkers. And I get interrupted or distracted or busy during this routine (I made a $1000 sale while writing this message) so it may seem that I'm not doing very much actual work. But hey, I'm just a whirlwind in a thorn tree.
I have been asked on a number of occasions recently how it is that I now can manage to come up with so many comments and links for my daily weblog. I have even have had complaints about the new high level of activity on my site following from months (years) of inactivity or sporadic postings! (for which I also had complaints from the same party). There are two parts to the answer. The first part of the answer is simple - I now have better posting technology. With the current solution, I can very easily grab a web link and add comments from within my browser or send emails to a special address that directly posts the message text to the site. A web log entry now takes seconds or a few minutes as HTML formatting, archiving and uploading are no longer tasks I need be concerned with. Archiving had always been a particularly cumbersome task.
The second part of the comment issue is that it is reflective of my daily routine - every morning I sit down at my computer and...
1. Login and open my Outlook mail.
2. Delete the 50-100 spam messages that make it through my spam filter
3. Read any client or prospect messages.
4. Respond to my Important Dates Reminders
5. Look in the Web Downloads folder and flag recipients
6. Look in the Information Requests folder for leads and delete spams (this hangs Outlook)
7. Open my personal email (respond and delete spam)
8. Open my LFC Toronto mail
9. Go to theToronto Sun website for News and SG
10. Go to Doonesbury on the web
11. Go to the Liverpool Official Site
12. Go to the Globe and Mail website If there is a story or topic that catches my eye, I'll go to the BBC Word News for more details.
13. And then finally, I go to Neal's Blog
Any of these activities can get me looking at other stories, topic or sites which is one reason why my topics may seem so disconnected (another reason being my own randomness of thought). Throughout the day I also get fed links and stories from friends and coworkers. And I get interrupted or distracted or busy during this routine (I made a $1000 sale while writing this message) so it may seem that I'm not doing very much actual work. But hey, I'm just a whirlwind in a thorn tree.
