Why have a blog if I can’t do something good with it? I have a friend, Natalie Cook (who we call Cookie) who is the most amazing singer but she hasn’t yet received the attention that she so rightly deserves. This year she entered for the X-Factor competition and didn’t get through. For anyone who watched the UK show and saw the abomination that was ‘Jedward’, I’m sure you’ll agree that the judges made a mistake!
Here she is singing an acoustic cover of Daniel Merriweather’s Red – not many people can truly sing with just a guitar for backing… Read more... (176 words, estimated 42 secs reading time)
Arrgh what an annoying few days I have had! First of all, I had a weird error when trying to access the admin area or the comments section The error that came up was:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /home/carolis8/public_html/blog/wp-blog-header.php on line 14 Read more... (606 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)
A few days ago I attempted to login to the blog as usual to check comments etc and got an error message upon login. It was whingeing about some ‘missing file’ which wasn’t missing. The blog itself seemed fine though I noticed that new comments weren’t appearing so I suspected that readers were also getting an error trying to submit a comment. A couple of emails from readers confirmed this.
At first I tried manually re-uploading the file that was supposedly missing and I also tried various manual fixes that I found on various support forums after a google search on the problem. None of these things worked. Read more... (277 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)
I have a twin-monitor setup on my main PC. Until today I was using a 20″ widescreen as my main display and a very old 15″ as my secondary one. The old one started to play up last week so thought about replacing it. I figured I’d just buy a cheap monitor to replace the second one.
However I was amazed to find that monitor prices have really come down since I last bought one. I think I got my 20″ about 3 or 4 years ago. So with prices so low I decided to make the 20″ the secondary display and buy a massive 24″ instead :-) Read more... (273 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)
Self development author Steven Covey has often talked about ‘putting the first things first’ and this simply means to focus on the most important work at any given time. I’m very bad at doing this and my work has been suffering as a result.
This last week in particular really brought home how important this concept can be. At the end of December 2009 I took a plunge and decided to join a coaching program. It’s run by Bob Proctor who has been in the self development field for over 40 years and was one of the main characters in the movie, The Secret. I’m a fan of his work and happened to stumble upon his year-long coaching program which I felt was just what I needed for 2010. Read more... (988 words, estimated 3:57 mins reading time)
