31 Days to a Brand New Blog: Day 1

(or, “why ignoring your email always comes back to haunt you”)

Happy August! And Happy 2010! Yes, I haven’t been blogging in over a year now. Instead I’ve been putting my time into other things, like:

  • starting my Masters’ Degree (MAIS) at Athabasca – two courses down, ten to go.
  • single parenting – how did my kid get so big?
  • politics – hey, there’s always an election just around the corner!
  • and Twitter, my new source of all things new and notable.

But when I ran across the 31 Days to a Brand New Blog challenge on Twitter, I thought it was time to get back to blogging. So, here I am with today’s challenge: Analyze Your Blog’s Traffic by installing Google Analytics.

But first, I had to deal with the ignored emails – specifically, the ignored emails that told me Blogger was discontinuing their FTP program. After a bit of work, I’ve think I’ve got the blog publishing again (we’ll see for sure once I hit “Publish Post”) with the code for Google Analytics in place. Cross your fingers!