I’ve already admitted that I’m better at taking care of other people than I am myself…especially when it comes to updating my systems, my blogs, renewing my memberships, keeping up with twitter, facebook, linked in- or any of my other social media networks.  It is difficult to do this when you are in a time constraint with your business…and time IS money.  But, the creepy crawler catches up with you.  Cobwebs set in and pretty soon, you go to do something and your compter says, “huh”? and you have a bad computer day all day. 

Case in point, I was assisting one of my clients the other day, and I wanted to setup code for him on his site that would let him keep track of how his site was doing overall statistically as it was being tracked. It had been so long since I had checked my on stats that I didn’t realize they had updated “how” they did the tracking and mine hadn’t been tracked in months…just because I had failed to keep abreast of things pertaining to the functioning of my own sites. 

Then there are those little nuisances where you see an email alert about a change on one of your pertinent sites, and you contend you will do it later…then forget, until something malfunctions again, because the computer “forgets” the old way of doing things too!

I wrote a blog last week, and it was fairly informative I thought and took particular care with it to get some information out to my readers.  Well, I went to find it on my site, and it was gone.  NOT THERE!  NADA.

Did I lose it?  Did I forget to publish it?  Was it in the draft folder?  Nope.  It was nowhere to be found.

Guess who updated?  Yep.  Wordpress.  To the new version… 2.7.1.  Now I’m sure I was informed of this earlier…sometime, somewhere, at one of my email addys…but hey, I’ve been busy!   Excuses produces Misses!

Another client wanted to know why Google Analytics wasn’t tracking his web stats…yep again…they block content that is not updated and spend their energy on the ones who pay attention!

Moral of the story is obvious.  God and Websites take care of those who take care of themselves!