Too Many Problems

I realized this morning that I am really getting behind on various problems that I need to address. Some of these center around this blog. Apparently, I didn't pay any attention to some of the lessons I thought I had learned from my website development fiasco, and just jumped into creating a blog without really figuring out what I was doing. So I need to do some research on blogging and especially how to promote my blog. I've got to get started on this pretty soon.

I am also having a problem with the subscription thing. People sign up for the blog subscription but then they don't activate it. I'm not sure why, but it might have something to do with the activation e-mail. People with aol and maybe other e-mail addresses can't click on the link that comes with the activation e-mail -- they have to copy and paste it, and that can be a pain. So I've been adding these subscribers manually. I may need to start looking for another subscription program that doesn't require activation.

I've got some software problems to deal with. Something is causing IE to shut down periodically -- "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" or whatever the error message says. I thought this might be fixed after I installed SP2, but it still happens. Also, when I boot up the computer, some of my program icons don't always show up in the taskbar even though the programs are running. Sometimes they show up; other times they don't. Why would this be? Whatever it is, it is really bothersome when I need to access a program that is supposed to be in the taskbar. I have to shut it down from the task manager and then start it up again manually.

Then there is my laptop computer. The problem is that I hate it. It's a Sony Vaio. There are some things I can do to make it act more like the way I want, but I hate using it so much that I don't even want to turn it on. I need to look into getting a new laptop, maybe towards the end of the year so that I can take a tax deduction.

Of course, I have work-related problems. All my current clients have given me stuff all at once and everything is due around the same time. So it looks like I'll need to put in quite a few hours this weekend.

Enough said.