Spring Cleaning

wpid-fileCabinets.6PUCdTGyg2BO.jpgThe importance of keeping things organized is a time consuming act. I like knowing exactly where my belongings are. I get great joy from being able to tell someone with complete certainty if I have the item they want and exactly where it can be found.

This type of organization and categorization doesn’t happen overnight. I spend a lot of time making sure that everything belongs somewhere. If something doesn’t belong somewhere then I invent where it should be belong. Sometimes I pick the wrong place and have to revise my categorizations. Usually I kick myself for lacking the proper foresight to predict with absolute certainty where something belongs, but as the old saying goes, “Hindsight is 20-20.” So I try and leave my behind as kick-free as possible.

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To-Do List

Now that I have a new blog there’s a few things that I gotta do. These things are gonna let me have the most fun blogging. I figured it’d be interesting/fun for you to read what I usually do when I start a blog, mine or someone else’s.

  • Download WordPress and install it on server
  • Install theme of choice (after scouring hundreds of choices)
  • Find plug-ins that I want to use (install & configure)
    • Make a Google Analytics account to track traffic
      • Debate between the Google Analytics and Google Analyticator plug-in (went with google analyticator b/c of more frequent updates to plug-in)
    • Askimet to catch spam commenters
    • Install a better discussion engine: either Disqus or IntenseDebate (went with IntenseDebate, better compatibility with theme)
    • SEO – Search Engine Optimization plug-ins
      • Google XML Sitemaps
      • All in One SEO Pack
    • Feedburner (to handle RSS feeds) (burned feed)
  • Modify existing theme to allow for micro-blog style formats (so that I can make little ‘twitter-esque’ updates such as “Listening to new Hot Chip album – digging!”)
    • Or figure out a way to slip-stream twitter updates into the blog

Can’t think of anything else right now. I’ll update this post as the ‘to-dos’ become ‘dones’.[update: added more to-dos, crossed out completed tasks]