September 2008 recap

I posted a total of 33 entries in September on this blog. Although that crushes most personal blogs, that’s actually the joint worst posts-per-month tally since i started back in November 2006. My lowest ever posts per month was 16 in November 2006, but then again i only started half way through November

So that should immediately set off alarm bells… something’s not right… have i decided to pack it in? have i eased off on my online work? have i just gotten lazy?

Well, just to clear up that last question… i haven’t gotten lazy. In fact, it’s the complete opposite. I’m working harder than ever only the results and proof of that are invisible at present. The main reason i haven’t been as active this month is due to the fact i’m back at college.

Having said that, i did manage to take part in a site flipping challenge. I’m co-founder & author of listlunatic.com. I also managed to create chromeguide.com and nipped in just before pagerank got updated… so chromeguide.com now has a pagerank 2

I also created and sold defenced.com as part of my charity skydive competition (the domain was donated by raul (one of my readers - thanks!). Only sold for $30 but there you go… a site will only sell for what someone is willing to pay for it.

The other major event last month was of course my charity skydive competition. I raised 20% of my goal (~$200 out of $1000), which is respectable and yeah, i’d probably call it a success as it was my first ever online competition run solely on the back of this blog.

Although i’m not one to ‘do’ excuses, i did have broadband problems this month, which definitely held me back from posting a bit more. I was reduced to dial up speeds and was disconnected completely for about 48 hours. Thankfully, things seem to be back to normal now.

I’ve mentioned the fact i’m involved in producing a short film/sketch/movie thing as part of a college project. So again, i can’t show you what i’ve done on that as all i’ve been doing is brushing up on my editing skills… but here’s a video i put up on youtube to test out my cloning skills…

Yes, i realize it’s poor and that there are lighting issues + a lack of blending, but this was just a test and it was well received by people who aren’t familiar with cloning or didn’t believe it was possible. It’s my job to iron out stuff like this and leave them thinking ‘how did he do that?’ - that’s ultimately my goal on this and learning how to use premier pro and after effects on your own is a mammoth task for one man and basic quality video and audio…

Along with all of that, i have another ebook about 75% complete. It’s about 20 pages in length and on ‘SEO’.

So really i haven’t been lazy at all and the fact i’m not blogging as much as i used to isn’t me backing off from online work… it’s basically me beefing up my knowledge in IT at college and learning how to put together videos. Nothing wrong with that… i’ll allow myself to slack off blogging so long as i’m doing something productive. So long as i’m learning, i’ll never criticize myself.

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