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Back From Holiday [en]

[fr] Une fois n'est pas coutume, je vais répartir sur les prochains jours la publication des nombreux articles que j'ai écrits durant mes vacances, histoire d'éviter de vous assommer d'un coup avec. J'espère que vous apprécierez!

I’m back from my two weeks of holiday (even if there was a week of work in between them) and have written quite a lot (short stories and posts). I usually publish posts as soon as I can, but after over six months of managing the ebookers.ch travel blog I have gotten used to scheduling posts, and decided it was not as evil as I initially felt.

So, instead of dumping a truckload of posts upon you this very minute, I’m going to schedule them over the next days. I hope you appreciate the effort!

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  • Maker Days and Manager Days [en] (2009)
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  • A Short Note and Update [en] (2009)
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  • What Are Your Favourite Climb to the Stars Articles? [en] (2010)
  • Blogging Feast and Famine [en] (2011)
  • Weekly Planning: Weekly Routine? [en] (2010)
  • Cockerel, Anybody? [en] (2012)
  • From All to Nothing Doesn't Do it [en] (2011)
  • Blogging Like Cleaning the Flat [en] (2009)

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Author Stephanie BoothPosted on 16.08.2009Categories CTTS NewsTags blogging, Blogosphere Interest, ctts, scheduling, Site NewsLeave a comment on Back From Holiday [en]

Elsewhere [en]

[fr] Si vous ne suivez que CTTS, voici quelques adresses (certaines en français) où vous pouvez trouver mes publications récentes, ailleurs que sur ce blog.

Now that I’m a little scattered all over the place online, a few pointers to recent publications you might have missed if you just follow CTTS:

  • Digital Crumble, nearly daily
  • a couple of articles on the eclau blog (in French)
  • a “status” article on the Going Solo blog
  • my third newsletter (since September!!)
  • articles on the Fleur de Pains blog (a client, in French)
  • a few posts on EBF, which I manage for Blogwerk (also in French)
  • an increasing number of photos on Flickr
  • a few comments here on there captured by Backtype
  • and, of course, Twitter (me, eclau, Bagha)

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  • A Mess of Facebook Pages, Groups, and Profiles (Part 1) [en] (2010)
  • Kitty Pic Caption Contest [en] (2007)
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  • Another Small Step With Google Buzz [en] (2010)
  • Feedly: More Than a Newsreader, Maybe Your Search Engine of Tomorrow? [en] (2009)
  • Losing Credit [en] (2012)
  • Here's the plan [en] (2009)
  • Bagha: One Year, Coming Up [en] (2011)

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Author Stephanie BoothPosted on 12.04.2009Categories CTTS NewsTags blogging, ctts, elsewhere, Links, me, Offsite, publication, Site NewsLeave a comment on Elsewhere [en]

Slightly Funky CTTS [en]

[fr] Quelques petits problèmes avec Thesis, mon thème. Rien de grave, mais ne vous en faites pas si CTTS a l'air un poil cassé.

Things are slightly funky around here, because I’ve lost all the setting for Thesis, the theme I’m using. Hopefully I’ll be able to fix it soon (database magic) but in the meantime, things are looking slightly off.

I have a bunch of things to blog about here, but I’m having a bout of RSI, so I’m keeping it for later. In the meantime, you can follow me on Digital Crumble, my tumblelog, where I’m pretty active these days collecting snippets of my online explorations.

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  • Where Does Tumblr Fit in? [en] (2010)
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  • Feedly: More Than a Newsreader, Maybe Your Search Engine of Tomorrow? [en] (2009)
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  • Elsewhere [en] (2009)

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In Lisbon, at SHiFT'08 [en]

[fr] Je suis à Lisbonne pour la conférence SHiFT. J'y présente demain. Mon serveur a eu quelques hoquets (sites non accessibles ce dernier jour) mais tout devrait être rentré dans l'ordre.

I arrived in Lisbon on Monday. I’m now attending the SHiFT conference, and very happy to be here (my talk is this afternoon, closing session).

Lisbon 2008 - SHiFT - 23

My server was down for about 24 hours or so (if you tried to reach this site, or another site of mine, and couldn’t, that’s the explanation). It’s back up now and things look like they’re going to be OK.

Unfortunately that means that on top of dealing with business as usual, I’ve been scrambling to set up a temporary server (thankfully a useless effort) instead of writing the 2-3 blog posts I wanted to publish: one on the [Somesso](http://somesso.com/) conference, 31st October in Zurich (I’ll be there), and another one on [LeWeb’08 Paris](http://www.lewebparis.com/) (I’ll also be there).

Some quick news — for you, but also to get it out of my head:

– Things are looking good for the Lausanne coworking space (lease signed, deposit money found, coworkers found and people still calling up to check the place out) — we’re opening 1st of November (the party will be later) so that means I’ll be very busy setting things up as soon as I get back home from this trip.
– This week, I’m going to review requests for LeWeb blogger accreditations. There are roughly 4 requests for every pass I have, so I’m afraid many people will not be accredited. Accreditations will take into account blogging language, geographical location, and overall blogger “profile”. We’re really happy so many people want to be part of this, and I apologize in advance that we will not be able to accommodate everyone.
– I owe [a newsletter](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/08/31/stephanie-has-a-newsletter/) to my subscribers. It will come. It is not forgotten.
– I’m taking photos and will post them.
– My talk here will be filmed. Yay!
– It feels like summer here in Lisbon.
– I’m looking forward to meeting bloggers from the Blogging Web 2.0 Expo Programme next week!

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Author Stephanie BoothPosted on 17.10.2008Categories Conferences, CTTS News, PersonalTags ctts, Events, lisbon, news, server, shift, shift08, Site News, Travels2 Comments on In Lisbon, at SHiFT'08 [en]

New Look for CTTS: Thesis [en]

[fr] Je viens d'installer (après avoir acheté la version "Dévelopeur") le thème Thesis, et j'en suis très contente. J'aime les réglages que permet facilement ce thème (nombre de colonnes et largeur, sans avoir à toucher le CSS) ainsi que la "boîte multimédia" en haut à droite, qui permet de montrer des photos aléatoires (et même, si on veut, de spécifier une photo en particulier pour une page en particulier).

A few weeks ago Suw mentioned that she was looking at the Thesis theme for her sites. I went to have a look, and it looked nice and clean. Only problem: it wasn’t free.

However, the theme author, Chris Pearson (not to be confused with Cris Pearson), was offering a lifetime subscription to the theme and support, as well as use on unlimited sites for the developer version ($164), which I bought.

The result is what you see now on the site. I haven’t modified it much yet. Here are a few things I liked.

First, you can control the top navigation menu bar completely (look at how much stuff I put in it — maybe a bit too much). It wraps nicely when you put more items than fit in one line. You can add links to pages in your site, or to outside pages. This also allows me to link to the page named About Me and This Site with the simple word “About”. Basically, this achieves the same thing as the “redirect to” page template that I’m using on the Going Solo site, for example.

Second, you can tweak the width of your columns. The default width for the main content column in Thesis is 480px. Given I insert many medium-sized Flickr photos (500px wide), I widened it. No need to fool with the CSS, Thesis does it all in the background.

Third, the image rotator. Up right, you can see one of my photographs, and when you click on it, it will take you to the Flickr page it lives on. I’ll explain how I did this in a separate post.

At one point, I added a header image, which I now removed because I think it doesn’t go well with the images in the multimedia box up right. Here is the code I used (in the custom.css stylesheet), if ever it comes in handy to anybody.

.custom #header {
background: url("/wp/wp-content/themes/thesis/images/ouchy-header.jpg")
repeat-x top left;height: 160px; }
.custom #header #tagline {color: black;}
.custom #header {paddint-top: 1.5em;}

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Trying the Disqus WordPress Plugin [en]

[fr] J'essaie le plugin Disqus pour WordPress. Prometteur, mais pour le moment pas encore concluant. Je risque de le retirer bientôt.

I’ve been keeping an eye on Disqus, the blog commenting system, for many months now. I stumbled upon one of their blog posts today announcing that their new version came with a WordPress Plugin.

Two main things have been bothering me with Disqus:

  1. I want to keep control of my comments on my server, not outsource them (maybe I’m being silly about this, but well)
  2. I don’t want people commenting to be able to delete or edit their comments after publishing them, because it potentially can wreak havoc in the discussion thread if people aren’t careful about it. OK for cosmetic or “15 minutes after” modifications, but not 1 week later.

The WordPress plugin announces “Auto-sync of comments with Disqus and WordPress database”. Sounds good. Time to try Disqus here on CTTS.

First, I had to claim my blog withing Disqus. Failing to do that resulted in a bunch of server errors when I tried to follow the link to integrate Disqus into my blog (seems they are using the same unfortunate vocabulary coComment chose ages ago). Well, Climb to the Stars is now claimed, and has a community page on Disqus.

I finally found out how to download the plugin (it would be nice to make it available through the WordPress Plugin Directory, guys) and installed it, after backing up my database (daring, but not completely dare-devil).

I didn’t bump into any problems installing it, all went smoothly. I’m just a bit perplexed by this:

Disqus Admin in WordPress

Will Disqus put new comments into my WordPress database too? It seemed to me that it would do that (“Autosync”) but now I’m not so sure anymore.

I’m not too happy about how trackbacks are being treated on the community page for CTTS:

Climb to the Stars Community Page

I know my implementation of “similar posts” messes up the trackback/pingback excerpts, but at least WordPress puts everything on one line. Note also the encoding issues. (I hope the problem is on Disqus’ end, and that I’m not back in encoding hell once again — in my opinion, though, Disqus should be able to deal with any encoding thrown at it.)

I’m also wondering how Disqus and Akismet play together (not to mention Bad Behavior). Can anybody shed some light on that?

At the moment, I’m waiting to see if all my existing comments are getting imported or not (things seems stuck at roughly a week back). I’m also waiting to see what happens with new comments (do they go into my WP database? do they have encoding problems? can people edit them 1 week after commenting?)

The encoding issue is a showstopper (either Disqus fix it, or if it’s on my end, it means I need to go back into encoding hell, and there is no way I’m doing that before October. The “edit comments 1 week later” issue is also a showstopper — I imagine there should be a way for the blog owner to prevent this, but I haven’t found anything in the Disqus admin.

So, I’m leaving the plugin in for a little while, but chances are I’ll have to remove it.

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Author Stephanie BoothPosted on 23.08.2008Categories CTTS News, WordpressTags commenting, ctts, disqus, editing, encoding, plugin, Site News, test, trying, Weblog Technology, Wordpress7 Comments on Trying the Disqus WordPress Plugin [en]

Eighth Blogversary [en]

[fr] Il y a huit ans jour pour jour, je commençais à bloguer.

[Eight years ago today](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2000/07/13/weblog-open/), I stumbled over to [blogger.com](http://blogger.com) after seeing one too many “Powered by Blogger” stickers on sites I was visiting after checking out the profiles of my fellow Astounding Web forum pals.

I read the welcome page, and didn’t get it.

I created an account to try to understand. Ah! This was something that would allow me to publish stuff (like my “What’s New?” page) easily, without having to bother with FTP (that was what Blogger was about then — Blogspot didn’t exist yet).

It sounded like a cool tool to add to my site (like [Sitemeter](http://sitemeter.com), like a local search engine, like a feedback form). Little did I know where it would lead me.

I’ve been a blogger for eight years.

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.5.2 (I Think) [en]

[fr] Mise à jour de WordPress. En espérant que rien ne casse. Vraiment.

There, upgraded my WordPress install. Was much needed. Did a little plugin spring-cleaning while I was at it. Leave a comment if you see anything wonky — I’m still fixing stuff, though.

And oh, no. I’m going to have to update Basic Bilingual. Which means I need to get SVN running on my MacBook again. Wish me luck.

Update: actually, Basic Bilingual still works, though it’s ugly in the admin. So I’ll leave it for now.

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December 2007 Recap [en]

[fr] Un récapitulatif de mes publications du mois de décembre. Principalement (vous trouverez le détail dans la partie anglaise de ce billet) des articles au sujet de Going Solo, de mes activités professionnelles, des bidouillages WordPress et quelques sujets divers.

Contrairement au mois dernier (mes excuses plates pour cela, d'ailleurs), j'ai publié un certain nombre d'articles en français. En voici la liste:

  • Du lavage de linge sale en ligne -- suite de l'histoire Pointblog, et des arriérés de Christophe Ginisty, du coup (son entreprise me doit toujours 1050€)
  • Blogs en entreprise, un peu en vrac -- quelques pistes pour saisir la problématique du blog d'entreprise
  • Arghl! Du spam par SMS! On fait quoi? -- conseils pratiques si vous recevez des SMS de pub
  • Website Pro Day, deuxième! -- l'édition une a eu tellement de succès qu'on a remis ça (s'enfermer durant une journée pour bosser sur son site pro)
  • Trois heures pour se mettre à bloguer -- concept d'atelier-blogs pour particuliers que je suis en train de mettre sur pied
  • Qui prendrait des “cours de blog”? -- face au scepticisme de certains, discussion du public-cible pour une telle offre
  • Marketing expérientiel vs. publireportage -- pour comprendre en quoi consiste ce fameux "experiential marketing" dont j'ai passablement parlé en anglais
  • Qu’est-ce que je fais, au juste? -- une tentative d'expliquer ce que je fais, dans le cadre de la réfection de mon site professionnel

Si vous vous sentez d'attaque pour lire quelques articles en anglais, je liste les 5 (et 3) plus importants en fin de billet.

It’s high time for a [December 2007](/archives/2007/12/) Recap. 36 posts, including the [November 2007 Recap](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/26/november-2007-recap/). In future, I’ll try to do the recap nearer the end of the month. I will.

And I thought November had been busy?!

### Going Solo and Going Far

Let’s get cracking: I’d say one of the major themes of December 2007 was my [announcement of Going Solo](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/14/announcing-going-solo/), and a whole bunch of posts I wrote around that. I’ve now [copied the posts](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/01/15/websites-for-going-solo-and-going-far/) over to the blogs of both [Going Solo](http://going-solo.net) and [Going Far](http://going-far.com), so I’ll link to them there.

**On the [Going Solo blog](http://going-solo.net):**

– [Announcing Going Solo](http://going-solo.net/2007/12/14/announcing-going-solo/): the announcement
– [Picking a City for an Event: Lausanne](http://going-solo.net/2007/12/16/picking-a-city-for-an-event-lausanne/): explaining my decision to hold the event in Lausanne, rather than London, Paris or Berlin
– [Headache: Picking a Date for an Event](http://going-solo.net/2007/12/16/headache-picking-a-date-for-an-event/): where I share some of the pain involved in choosing a date (I actually had to [change it to May 16th](http://going-solo.net/2008/01/10/about-a-date/) later on

For some reason, [Badges at Conferences](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/14/badges-at-conferences/) didn’t get copied over to the Going Solo blog — but it’s clearly related to this conferency stuff.

**On the [Going Far blog](http://going-far.com):**

These posts are more general musings (most of the time) on the whole “[starting a company](http://going-far.com/2007/11/13/im-starting-a-company/)” thing.

– [News from LeWeb3](http://going-far.com/2007/12/12/news-from-leweb3/): [LeWeb3](http://www.leweb3.com/) (which I maintain should have been called LeWeb4) is where I started talking about Going Solo and approaching possible sponsors — a very important step for me
– [Why Events?](http://going-far.com/2007/12/16/why-events/): an explanation of why I decided to start organizing events in addition to my current work as a consultant and [speaker](http://stephanie-booth.com/en/speaking/)
– [Advisors, Boards, Companies, Partners, Oh My!](http://going-far.com/2007/12/17/advisors-boards-companies-partners-oh-my/): trying to come to grips with the different levels of involvement others may have in your company (still figuring that one out, by the way)
– [Websites and Blogs, Where Does One Start?](http://going-far.com/2007/12/19/websites-and-blogs-where-does-one-start/): yet another post ending in a punctuation mark — worrying about online presence, and finding it kind of ironic as it’s my job to help people with theirs

Here, too, a post which I think I should also have copied over, but which got left behind: [Feeling Like a Born-Again Blogger](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/17/feeling-like-a-born-again-blogger/).

### WoWiPAD, WPD, and Work-Related Stuff

While on the topic of events, December saw some action in the “get together and do stuff” department: [Website Pro Day (WPD) and World Wide Paperwork and Administrivia Day (WoWiPAD)](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/17/wwpad-wpd/). The [second WPD](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/14/website-pro-day-deuxieme/) *(French post)* was announced and took place on the 28th. [WoWiPAD1 and WPD2 News](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/26/wowipad1-and-wpd2-news/) was a short announcement/sign-up post.

As a result, I’ve worked a bit on my [professional site](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/28/working-on-my-professional-site/) (this month too, actually), and written about trying to map out what I do and how to “advertise” is: [Working on my Professional Site](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/28/working-on-my-professional-site/) (with a French version: [Qu’est-ce que je fais, au juste?](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/28/quest-ce-que-je-fais-au-juste/).

I also decided to start organizing a blogging crash course. As this targets local people, I’ve blogged about it in French: [Trois heures pour se mettre à bloguer](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/17/trois-heures-pour-se-mettre-a-bloguer/) (the concept — I’ll be proposing this as a workshop at [the LIFT conference](http://www.liftconference.com/) once I’ve figured how to write it up… tomorrow — deadline is 20th!) and [Qui prendrait des “cours de blog”?](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/17/qui-prendrait-des-cours-de-blog/), my vision of the target audience for this kind of course.

I sent in a talk proposal for BlogTalk 2008 ([BlogTalk 2008 Proposal — Being Multilingual: Blogging in More Than One Language](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/07/blogtalk-2008-proposal-being-multilingual-blogging-in-more-than-one-language/)). For the funny story, I had a nasty time booking my flights, then my talk was rejected, then I decided not to go to BlogTalk and started cancelling my flights, then I was invited to come on a panel (which I’ve just agreed to moderate), so I had to un-cancel and rebook a couple of flights. Sigh.

Still in the “work-related” department, as I was booking my flights with [Kayak.com](http://kayak.com), I decided to write up the experience: [Being My Own Travel Agent With Kayak](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/22/being-my-own-travel-agent-with-kayak/). This was a chance to share what I’d learnt with my fellow travellers, and in the same time provide a demonstration of what kind of material I might produce during an [experiential marketing campaign](/focus/experiential-marketing/). The very next day, I came upon an article on a French blogger’s site (about some form of blogvertising) which prompted me to give some explanations about the experiential marketing concept in French: [Marketing expérientiel vs. publireportage](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/23/marketing-experientiel-vs-publireportage/). So… two rather long blog posts just before [Christmas](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/22/christmas/). (There would be another post or two to write about the end of my adventures in organizing travel: sites that don’t take non-US credit cards, for example, or various weird pricing structures and policies you can bump into. But not now. Today, my travels for Feb/March are booked, finally.)

Though it was written early in the month, [Blogs en entreprise, un peu en vrac](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/07/blogs-en-entreprise-un-peu-en-vrac/) *(in French)* also belongs to this pile of “work-like” posts, as it is an explanation of the issues surrounding corporate blogging and what it involves. I actually wrote it for a prospective client at the time.

### WordPress Things

Another major theme for December was **WordPress-related things** (as you can see, I’ve been knee-deep in code):

– [Ridding WordPress Plugins of Template Tags](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/04/ridding-wordpress-plugins-of-template-tags/): a couple of neat tricks to save your plugin users from having to add template tags all over the place
– [WordPress Sandbox Theme Problems](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/18/wordpress-sandbox-theme-problems/): not all resolved, I’m afraid
– [Nasty Problem With Basic Bilingual Plugin](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/18/nasty-problem-with-basic-bilingual-plugin/): [resolved](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/18/nasty-problem-with-basic-bilingual-plugin/#comment-346641), thankfully!
– [WordPress Deaf to Pings](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/18/wordpress-deaf-to-pings/): seems to have mostly resolved itself, though I do often end up republishing posts 3-4 times to help the pingbacks get through
– [Browser Language Detection and Redirection](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/28/browser-language-detection-and-redirection/): not strictly WordPress stuff, but useful to anybody with a [multilingual](/focus/multilingual) WordPress site
– [Bunny’s Language Linker: New WordPress Plugin](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/28/bunnys-language-linker-new-wordpress-plugin/): now also [in the WordPress Plugin Index](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bunnys-language-linker/) — helps create links between equivalent pages on mirror-translated websites.

### The Rest

Now we find ourselves faced with a bunch of posts that don’t seem directly related to one another. My interests are varied, and I must say that I sometimes wonder how anybody else but me would find such a mixture appealing.

Here are some about **Web 2.0-ish related stuff**:

– [Twitter Advertisers and Friend Collectors](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/15/twitter-advertisers-and-friend-collectors/): why I block some people on Twitter
– [Hashtags For My Followees](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/18/hashtags-for-my-followees/): an explanation of hashtags on Twitter
– [Granular Privacy Control (GPC)](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/26/granular-privacy-control-gpc/): a thought or two on the Google Reader Shared Items “privacy” non-issue
– [Hoosgot: The Lazyweb is Back!](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/31/hoosgot-the-lazyweb-is-back/): announcing Hoosgot, reincarnation of the Lazyweb

What’s left? [Photography: Being the Model](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/16/photography-being-the-model/), where I express that though I’m glad to have my photo taken, I do consider I have some rights to the resulting photo as it’s a picture of *me*. [Fresh Lime Soda Episodes 8 & 9](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/14/fresh-lime-soda-episodes-8-9/) (yes, that was bad — episode 10 is waiting on my hard drive to be edited).

And two more posts in French: [Arghl! Du spam par SMS! On fait quoi?](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/14/arghl-du-spam-par-sms-on-fait-quoi/) — some practical advice on dealing with SMS spam. And last but not least, [Du lavage de linge sale en ligne](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/05/du-lavage-de-linge-sale-en-ligne/), about using blogs to wash dirty linen in public. The dirty linen being, in this case, the fact that one [Christophe Ginisty](http://www.ginisty.com/) CEO of Pointblog (the company which ran the now-defunkt [Pointblog blog](http://www.pointblog.com/)) owes a bunch of people — including me — money for work we did. This has been dragging along for years now (I wrote an article in early 2006 for a magazine that Pointblog was producing).

### Selection

There you are! A [month of blogging](/archives/2007/12/) in just one post! Not feeling up to reading it all?

If you were to read only three posts (sticking to the English ones):

– [Announcing Going Solo](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/14/announcing-going-solo/)
– [Working on my Professional Site](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/28/working-on-my-professional-site/)
– [World Wide Paperwork and Administrivia Day (WoWiPAD) and Website Pro Day (WPD)](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/17/wwpad-wpd/)

Ready for five? Add these two:

– [Being My Own Travel Agent With Kayak](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/22/being-my-own-travel-agent-with-kayak/)
– [Photography: Being the Model](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/16/photography-being-the-model/)

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Websites for Going Solo and Going Far [en]

[fr] Going Solo a maintenant son propre site!

Here we are! [Going Solo](http://going-solo.net) now has its own (very linkable, please — it’ll need some link-love) website. As with everything around here, it’s still in the making, but I’d rather show it to you now than wait until all is “purr-fect” (ahem) before lifting the veil.

I’ve cross-posted what I’ve written here about Going Solo to the new blog, so everything is over there.

Remember, a couple of months back, when I [announced I was starting a company](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/11/13/im-starting-a-company/)? Well, the company has a name now: [Going Far](http://going-far.com) (thanks to [Stowe](http://stoweboyd.com/message/) for coming up with the name).

I’ve copied over there the blog posts which have more to do with the whole “setting up a business” aspect of things than with Going Solo in particular.

So, now I have three spaces in which to write about all this “business” stuff. I hope I won’t get lost. Expect some cross-posting, and also maybe some confusion.

In any case, I’m really excited about having these two sites up. Keep an eye on them as they evolve over the next weeks!

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