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Saturday Summary, Murphy’s Law Edition

by Mike Nichols on June 28, 2008 · 2 comments

Well, I’m closing out the first week here at Anxiety, Panic & Health. It’s been a busy time! A week ago this blog didn’t exist and now it does. After more than a year of planning and thought, that makes for a momentous occasion — for me, at least.

 

Setting up a blog was not as hard as I thought it might be, but not as easy as others have implied. There were so many steps — getting the domain names, setting up hosting services, copying the WordPress software, finding and setting up themes and widgets and plugins, getting the blog to look and act right. Each step has a learning curve all its own. Even though the blog is up and running, I am certain that I’ve only just scratched the surface of what I need to know and do to make it successful.

 

And Murphy was always there to make new corollaries to his law! It seems that at every step of the way he was gleefully making sure that everything that could go wrong, did. The one that sticks out in my mind the most is the 24 hours when the internet “lost” my blog and I couldn’t get to it at all. All I could do was try to be patient and reassure myself that it would come back.

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