As far as I can tell, all of the Photoblogs are now up and running. Of course, the only one that is PRETTY is the main Zootography (always active) photoblog. The rest? Are simply functional. Ever since I opened my Flickr account, the photoblogs haven’t seen much activity, but they are there - if you want to check them out. I have had these grand plans in the past to make a photoblog out of my “Random Photos” on the sidebar, but I’m lazy, and too busy designing other people’s sites to get creative on mine. But - they are finally up and running after the disaster that was this weekend’s upgrade.
All in all? Things are actually running a lot smoother. There are still kinks here and there that I need to work out, but the framework is a lot more stable now that I’ve been FORCED to clean things up. What does this mean for you? It means that you get a much LESS stressed out Zoot! Woo Hoo!
You also get a Notify list. Do you see that? On my sidebar? OVER THERE—>>>> Okay. Now, I post a million times a day, so I’m NOT going to notify you everytime I post. Don’t worry. You see, I plan on liveblogging my labor(don’t you DARE laugh at me) before I go to the hospital. Then, MrZ and I are going to send blog entries from our cell phones to let you know the progress. We want to keep you updated because we have both agreed that BLOGGING is the best thing to keep me distracted considering it is such a HUGE part of my life.
HOWEVER - in case none of this works as planned - or in case an emergency occurs - I will have a list of people to email as soon as we are able to. So, we are not planning on taking a blogging hiatus during labor (I want to totally geek out my daughter by blogging her birth.) but if we have to? You can be notified as soon as we return.
Also? Since this is new and I’ve never used this function before? I may run a couple of tests on entries between now and then. So, if you sign up, expect a couple of trial runs before we go live. Now - you do NOT HAVE to sign up. I read 1000 blogs that have notify lists and I’ve never signed up for any of them, I promise, my feelings won’t get hurt. If you know you’ll check back either way? Then don’t bother signing up. It’s just a bonus feature that MAY be useful to some people. If you’re one of those people? Feel free to use it.
(Of course, that doesn’t mean I wont be refreshing my notify list constantly to see who has signed up. I’m not THAT unattached to the outcome of this project.)
Okay, I so want to be on the list of people that you email to let know what’s going on. If not, I’m never ever ever talking to you again. At least not until you post cute baby pictures and I ooooh and ahhhh and awwww about how gorgeous she is
I think that live blogging the baby’s birth is pretty cool. Definitely sorta geeky, but in a cool way. I can’t wait to read about it!
I was just wondering that the other day, if anyone ever blogs during labor! That would be so awesome. Looking forward to it….
Hoo boy, I get in on the new wave of blogging — the centimeter count. Thanks, Zootster.
I looked at a bunch of your Flickr. I can’t help it, but the best pix were of the dogs and hubby. Too cute….
Delurking to say that Im totally buying popcorn and setting up shop at the computer the minute you go into labor. I think you should get/use a camera phone and send pics too. Kidding. Sorta. LOL
Now, I’ve been using Bloglines for a while (on your recommendation) and it was great at first, but now the updating is getting quite bad and with your blog I actually have to click on the thing to see if you’ve updated, rather than it just showing me. So I’ll sign up for the Notify thingy and hope that it doesn’t decide to be a lazy whore too
Can you use a cell phone in the hospital? Up here you can’t. You have to turn them off as soon as you go into a hospital! If you can, that will be GREAT fun!
The new style is so pretty!