Multitude of Thoughts Brimming

Still being on holiday, with limited online time (enforced by my own thinking and holiday needs) I find that my mind is just starting to tick over. The first few days I could honestly suggest I thought about little and nothing, other than getting into the routine of having fun with my family. We're on an activities-centric holiday - no lounging around a pool, more like bicycling from one event booked to another.

But I managed to quickly download the next installment of How To Think Sideways, and also start reading one of the hundreds of PDF files I brought on holiday thinking I would be able to learn some of this blogging / IM stuff. Wrong...it took three days before I read the HTTS, and I'm aware that I am missing some big stuff in the 30DC zone also - but watching videos on 11MB of internet connectivity is - well, it isn't.

So, HTTS asks me this week to apply some challenges to my MUSE (which is currently, I see bemusedly, a HE), and come up with three new ideas for stories. Trying to train that guy obviously doesn't work, but he's come up with about 1 1/2 stories so far, to some level of detail. One is based on here, where we are currently hand-feeding ducks and squirrels from out of our villa living room door. So one story has a squirrel in it. That seems both funny and lovely to me.

And I've come up with not one, but two niches for my 30DC / Blog Mastermind challenges. The first will be done as a wordpress blog, following along with BM and 30DC which provided the SEO and competitor analysis I needed to find the niche. It's for something I want to get into, but not something which will take a huge amount of effort. I'll be doing it like a newbie exploring the field type blog.

The second I will hold off on until I have more knowledge, because it will take a bit more. It's where my passion sits, (and includes scrapbooking, and writing, naturally) but may be better done through a Joomla website rather than wordpress. So, we'll see if I can start that off sometime before the new year. In the meantime I'm struggling to find a domain name to purchase for that one, without finding that it's been taken. It's a niche which has a lot of competitors but no overall defined master-competitor, just little bits that people have put up all over the place. And again, it's going to be a personal undertaking as I explore the domain, link to others and generally have fun with it all.

Now, I've got an appointment with a swimming pool, and later some computer activities making a mini-mousemat with my daughter. We will also be trying out some badminton and actually rock-climbing.

Still trying out this Windows Live Writer for publishing and drafting offline also. But the plugins had me downloading .NET framework - which is something you really don't want to do whilst on limited wireless access, let me tell you. Blinkin' Microsoft.

Comments

[Hummie]

Why are you wanting a new domain? I think you've already developed a name for yourself with scapability that would work for your marketing. Yes, all these domain names that pop up that all seem similar....how is one to remember one from another? New scrapsite owners need to start getting original. That's why I went with something non-scrapping a long time ago....I think peopel can remember it.

I wish I was getting in the pool rather than getting ready for work! Have a great day! Oh, and I tried the Live Writer once....before it supposedly had capabilities to post photos with blogger...but I prefer to just do my drafts online anyway so I can finish them from my work computer...cannot do that with a desktop writer.

Oh, but I want to upgrade to Outlook 2007....did you know you can post blog posts from it?