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July 24th, 2009

What is it about Thursdays these days ?

Yesterday was crazy, rather like Thursday last week. I won’t bore you with the particular details of why I was so busy, but suffice it to say that a load of “stuff” came up that needed to be dealt with immediately. Naturally, that squeezed the rest of the day’s time, so I had a decision to make.

Do I go to the supermarket to re-stock the supplies in my fridge and food cupboard, or do I press on and finish building my “PPP” for Alex Jeffreys’ Marketing With Alex 2.0 course ?

Well, because my new internet service provider shut me out for the first two days of our contract a couple of weeks ago, I have been playing catch-up ever since and I was determined to actually finish what I had started. So the “PPP” won that contest and it is now live !

(If you’re not one of Alex’s students and want to know what a “PPP” is, please go ahead and take a look at mine now.)

So, what were the consequences of this ?

Well, first of all, I’m losing weight ! (LOL – I must get to the supermarket today.)

Secondly, I felt really guilty about not blogging !

In truth, I do have a couple of draft posts up my sleeve, but by the time I got around to thinking about posting, it was so late that my mind was rather dulled. Although those posts were half-written, they still needed “tweaking” and I figured that I wouldn’t produce my best prose whilst out on my feet. So I decided to let it go for one day.

So after the frustration of yesterday, today it was great to came across a little tip that has not only given me something to write about, it’s also solved a problem that’s been bugging me since I started to blog. And although a lot of folks will say, “But that’s obvious !”, some others may find it a useful tip.

I have been wanting to use images in my blog posts almost from the word “go”. But for some reason, I have just never quite managed to get Wordpress to co-operate with me. Basically, it seems to me to be a two-step process …

1. Add your image to your blog’s “gallery” using the Upload/Insert icons above the Add New Post toolbar.
2. Insert it in to the post.

Simple enough ? Well again, I won’t go in to the boring details, but it was the second of these that I just couldn’t figure until today. I discovered that the trick is to use the keyboard short-cut Alt-Shift-M. (Obvious, huh ?) I’ve used this technique to update an old post and you can see the result here.

It may not seem like much to experienced bloggers, but for me, it’s a tasty little victory

The next challenge is to add that video that I’ve had ready for a week ! Watch this space …

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