How to tell this story without getting into the technical details and revealing by what method I prioritized tasks, and still manage to convey some of the insanity that visited itself upon me today?
Let's just say that the last two days were a storm of almost each and every one of my currently active "clients" contacting me:
- TWO total catastrophes that needed immediate attention (two sites, Smartmobs.com and BlogAfrica.com totally out of commission),
- moderately urgent glitches that were rather annoying (a wayward new plugin causing comments to bounce off of Joi's blog)
- a project for Technorati JP that's in final stages before going live and I forgot to import the most recent posts from the temporary site (oops heh)
- come to think of it GVO's been pretty quiet... except for the fact I have two deadlines looming for February.
Also, an old friend back in Montreal needed to borrow my skis, so I had to hook him up with my house-sitter, who informed me the WiFi was down at the apartment, so I hooked her up with Michael...
Electronic notifications of bills due for payment came in, making me realize I'm pretty damn low on cash myself and need to invoice a few folks too... immediately!
All of this while I am sitting in a windowless office in the basement of the Journalism and Media Studies Center at Hong Kong University, desperately trying to figure out why the blogfarm we are setting up refuses to post embedded videos AND chinese characters (admittedly important things for them, right?) before Rebecca and I give the faculty a crash-course in how to use this stuff.
At one point I just sat back and thought: nowhere to run man; just gotta do 'em one by one.
As of 1:30am, only one of these remains unsolved. Ethan, asap, I swear...
