Category — Blogging

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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Barnabas Quotidianus has moved!

We’re on the new server and visible again (thanks to help from Alex).

There’s some tweaking to do and the header picture to amend - and then we’ll be back to normal. As yet, I have not changed the theme - I’m going to give this some more thought.

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Barnabas Quotidianus will be moving to a new server over the weekend. At the same time we’ll be upgrading to WordPress 2.5 and a new version of the Cutline theme that gives BQ its look.

Like taxes and death, glitches are inevitable, so I apologize upfront for downtime, screw-ups, and the credit crunch. All I can promise is that I will have many anxious moments as I move things over.

Happy reading!

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I have been so busy! Not a moment to write a proper blog post. The National Spiritual Assembly met over the weekend and I have a lot of things I just have to do, both for the National Spiritual Assembly and for other organizations I’m committed to.

Tomorrow I have meetings all day: the Equality and Diversity Forum in the morning, the Religion and Belief Consultative Group in the afternoon, and a meeting on behalf of the National Assembly in the evening.

And then I’m off to Birmingham early Thursday morning for an all-day conference on the theme of Making Rights Real

Making Rights Real: European Year of Equalities for All conference for the voluntary and community sector
15 November, International Convention Centre, Birmingham

The Government Equalities Office and the new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have joined forces and, with the support of the Equality and Diversity Forum and the British Institute of Human Rights, have arranged this dedicated event for voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations. The conference is a unique opportunity for the VCS to hear from the EHRC and Government about progress on equality and human rights, to voice their concerns and to share experience and best practice.

You probably didn’t want to know any of this, but I’ve been feeling guilty about not writing in my blog for a while.

I do want to write a bit more about The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer Dixon, as reviewed here. I’ve now finished reading it and am really taken with the whole book. But I think his proposals for resolving the world crisis are on the weak side, less well developed than what he writes about how the world is heading for catastrophe. So this is where I turn to the Baha’i writings and the life of the Baha’i community to see what we can learn from them about building a better future for the planet. Homer Dixon has some of the principles, but little sense of how people would enact these principles.

While I’m on books that I’m reading, I’m now well into The New Atheists by Tina Beattie, a demolition of Dawkins et al from a Christian feminist perspective. I’ll write about that once I’ve finished it, but I do recommend it.

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