Category — Blogging

I’m going to be away from my beloved blog for a two or three days.

Tomorrow and Saturday I’m going to be spending much of the day sharing the message of Bahá’u'lláh with the citizens of Hatfield, a town just south of where I live. There’s a four-day project involving a number of Bahá’ís - and I’m one of them.

The days will be long, so I don’t think I’m going to be up to blogging when I get home. Bed, not blog, will be the rule.

Anyway, I should be able to write something on Sunday, perhaps Monday. I just wanted to let you know that Barnabas is still here and that BQ is not dying - just taking a short pause.

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Rob Weinberg has just launched a new blog, Where the World’s Going. Rob introduces his blog thus:

For some time now, I have been coming across news items and stories which strike me as illustrating two major processes that are at work in the world - the disintegration of outmoded ways of thinking and doing, and the burgeoning processes of integration. So, I thought I’d keep a blog about it. Enjoy!

I shall be keeping an eye on it.

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I’ve finished my first read-through of this excellent tome. I’ve skimmed the more familiar material and I’ve read the less familiar chapters more carefully.

Now I need to get my highlighters out and go through the whole book again very carefully.

I know quite a bit of the more techie stuff - not to Alpha Plus Geek level, but well enough. What I’m really looking forward to doing are the exercises that will help me decide what my second blog, which will be the one from which I make my six-figure income (????), will be about. (NB. I do intend to keep Barnabas Quotidianus going.)

Thanks, Darren and Chris.

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So, here I am with ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett. Just arrived this morning.

First step: Read the book!

Second step: Follow the advice - I’m not always good at that.

Third step: Join all the other bloggers as we stagger to the bank with our ££££ or $$$$.

Can I do it? What d’you reckon?

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This where I shall be for the next week, for the 10th International Baha’i Convention.

I’m not taking my laptop and I’m quite unlikely to have time to find a cybercafe and to post here while I’m away. I look forward to getting back to writing in early May. See you then!

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If you’re really desperate for something to do, you can follow me on Twitter here.

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I must apologize that BQ was unavailable for quite some time earlier in the week. The server where it resides had suffered a power surge and resultant damaged equipment and files. It took some time for the server to be restored.

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While I was shifting my blog to its new home, my permalinks got broken.

No, I didn’t have to go to the doctor to get them mended, but I did have to ask Alex, my service provider (and son) to fix something deep in the core programming of the server to allow me to use the permalink structure that I like - ‘almost pretty’ permalinks. So, for a couple of days, the permalinks were rubbish and I have a horrible feeling I may have lost some or all readers who subscribed using a feed reader.

Anyway, they are now mended and I hope we can get back to what passes for normality in BQ world.

What are they? They are the links that lie behind the headline for each post. They are what you see when you bring up a page with a single post on, rather than the page with the multiple posts that you see when you come to the blog’s home page.

So, if you see this, and you’re not getting my feed in your news reader, please subscribe again!

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I’ve managed a temporary fix. You can now access single posts and pages. But the fix is not ideal, since it does away with my favoured permalink structure.

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A kind reader has emailed to point out that he wasn’t able to leave a comment on one of my posts (thanks, David). The main page with multiple posts is fine, but it seems like the single post pages (the ones you get when you click on a post headline on the main page) are showing up as not available.

As I said yesterday, tweaking will be required. First thing I need to do? Get the single posts showing and open the blog for comments again.

Sweating it up

I have been working on this for hours now and have not yet found a way to solve the problem. Please bear with me. I need to talk to the overlord of the server (aka my son).

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