It all makes sense to me now …

(Credit to epicponyz, I think)

I’d love to publish a Readers’ Choice of top blog postings from 2010, but to do that I have to have readers. To short-circuit the normal selection process we’ve asked the author to choose his own “best of” 2010.

Here, without further ado, is our Author’s Choice: 2010 – the timpconnelly.com Top 5 Blog Posts of the Whole Entire Year, counting down …

5. If not today, when? June 3

4. Employee communications heirarchy September 10

3. What do brands think of us? April 10

2. Personal branding – fundamentals first March 11

1. Good work, great work, neither January 28

But the author’s favorite post of the year is from August …

One hundred!

The IT team here at timpconnelly.com took the opportunity afforded by our brief winter break to migrate the site to new — cheaper – hosting. We weren’t dissatisfied with our previous service provider; in fact they were great. We just didn’t need the robustness and power of their offering – or its corresponding price tag.

So, we got the domain name re-hosted, packaged up  all of our files and folders from the old FTP site and moved them into their new home, dragged over the MySQL database and plugged it in. Turned it on and … nothing. Every page showed the dreaded “404″ message – “page not found.” A call to the new host’s help desk got the MySQL database tweaked and re-loaded, we refreshed the URL and … it worked!

Or so we thought. [More]

I’m saddened to write that my aunt, Lorraine Patricia Connelly – “Aunt Pat,” died Sunday morning, Jan. 17, 2010, in Hoffman Estates, Ill., at the age of 86. Aunt Pat  was the last living member of my dad’s family, having been preceeded in death by three brothers (most recently my dad, in 2004) and two sisters.

Pat was a wonderful, thoughtful, caring and absolutely fun person to the very end. I remember Pat used to threaten to give me one, “Pow! Right in the kisser!” But of course she never did. [More]

Update – Jan. 11, 2010: Call me a malcontent, but I ran into limitations with my last theme and decided to fire it and hire yet another replacement. Since it was free, I wasn’t out a whole lot.

Like most people who operate a website or blog, I want something sharp, simple, flexible, sophisticated and easy to use. The theme I wrote about previously (below) had most of that, but [More]

Actually, I have been for a while now, but I got myself one of those fancy vanity URLs.

You’ll find me at www.facebook.com/timpconnelly