Testing . . . testing

As I noted a few posts ago, I've been having issues with the scheduling feature of Blogger (my secret is out: I'm usually not even awake when my entries post at 7 a.m.).

The problem seems to have started when I decided to disable word verification for comments. In order to troubleshoot the issue I have temporarily (or permanently, depending on the outcome of the aforementioned troubleshooting) re-enabled the word verification. My apologies to those of you who don't like typing random strings of letters (I personally think it's fun to see the combinations they come up with--I am more annoyed by being forced to sign in before commenting), but I see no way around it at the moment.

I'm writing this at 12:03 p.m. on Thursday, July 9th.


Best case scenario: You'll see this post Friday morning at 7:00, and word verification will stay enabled.

Worst case scenario: You'll see it when I remember to check to be sure it published or when I go to write a new entry and realize this one never posted, and it's back to the drawing board.

Let's see what happens . . .

A banner month

July is shaping up to be a really good month:

• One new client with two new projects (again, thanks for the referral Patty!)
  
• One existing client with continued project work
• Two old clients resurfaced with small projects
  

And to top it all off, my mom is coming for a visit mid-month, and I get to take a week off to hang out with her. Yay!

A jokewriter's dream

This is what happens when you hang out at Hogwart's: Harry Potter's 'Ron Weasley' gets swine flu in Britain

Happy 4th (almost)

On the eve of the 233rd anniversary of our country's independence, I took a day off--sort of.

My agency client's office is closed today, and I have no other active projects. I did, however, have a telephone interview with a prospective client--it went well, and hopefully laid the foundations for a long and beautiful business relationship. My thanks go out to my friend and fellow entrepreneur Patty for the hook-up!

I also took my car in for service, which ate up a sizable chunk of my afternoon (who knew an oil change, tire rotation and complimentary car wash could take over two hours?). I'm now spending some time catching up on my Facebooking and blog reading and trying to decide what's for dinner. Suggestions?

Every day I write the book

On Nova the other night, there was a segment about a man named Luis von Ahn. He originated the reCAPTCHA program, which--at least until I watched this segment--I thought was just a way of stopping spam by making sure I'm not a robot when I create an online account.

Little did I know that every time I have to verify my humanity on a site that uses reCAPTCHA, I am also helping to digitize old books and newspapers. Fascinating!

In unrelated news, what's going on with Blogger? I have had to manually publish this and yesterday's post (which was supposed to post on Tuesday) because they didn't publish at their scheduled time. Anybody else who uses Blogger experiencing this?