We have a new template!

I am currently setting up new templates for this and four new sports blogs … and there should be some*new* postings starting Monday!

In the meantime .. I invite you to follow us on twitter, subscribe to our feed, join our Facebook Fanpage and sign up to our newsletter! Links are around the page!

Thanks
HART

I am currently performing maintenance on this blog, and will continue to be making improvements over the next few months.

I will be changing the permalinks in this wordpress blog from:

blog/year/month/title
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

to

blog/category/title
/%category%/%postname%/

or just

/%postname%/

I will be performing category maintenance before any changes to permalink structure will be changed. The reason that I feel there needs to be a change, is that this blog consolidated the “Team Gushue” and “Team Kleibrink” blogs from 2006 Torin Olympics and I will be preparing this blog with a makeover for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

PS:
I will be using Dean’s Permalink Migration plugin found here:

www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

Thank-You
HART

* Whew!

I have completely upgraded CurlingBlog.com from wordpress 1.5.1 to the latest wordpress 2.3 version. I have also successfully upgraded both the “Team Gushue” blog and the “Team Kleibrink” blog to the latest wordpress 2.3. And then, I imported all of the posts, pages, and comments from each of these subsidiary blogs into this main Curling Blog’s database.

As such, it may look a little kooky for a while, as I try to better meld the information into a unified *NEW* Curling Blog look .. but, in the meantime I will leave the other blogs up until I’m happy that everything is in its proper place. Afterwards, the other two blogs will be deleted, without notice.

Unfortunately, this template was developed on the wordpress 1.5.x platform, and I have already fixed a few kinks and expect to find more kinks. If you notice anything funny happening with this template, it could be the template – or me! Please drop me a comment in here or via my contact form to let me know what is wrong, and where the error is – it will be much appreciated.

Getting Ready For Curling Season

There will be a more positive approach to blogging here at the Curling Blog 2008 Canadian Mixed Curling Championships, in Calgary Alberta, begin November 10-16, 2007. I will be starting to cover more curling news in this blog during this time, and up to the period of the next major curling championship, all my changes and upgrades to this blog should be completed! (That would be the 2007 Continental Cup of Curling in Medicine Hat, Alberta December 13-16, 2007.

Again … I thank-you for your patience.

Please stand-by …

I am trying to upgrade the CurlingBlog.com from a prehistoric wordpress version (1.5.1) to the latest version (2.3) .. however there will be times of downtime during this progress.

Thank-you for your patience.

I have decided to close down the “Team Gushue” blog and the “Team Kleibrink” blog … and combine all of its contents with the root http://CurlingBlog.com

 Once all the information has been transferred and consolidated .. this blog will be deleted.

Thank-you for your patience and understanding

Curling Blog – Team Gushue

I have decided to close down the “Team Gushue” blog and the “Team Kleibrink” blog … and combine all of its contents with the root http://CurlingBlog.com

 Once all the information has been transferred and consolidated .. this blog will be deleted.

Thank-you for your patience and understanding

Curling Blog – Team Kleibrink

NOTICE:

Effective June 4-8th week there will be no new postings around the HART-Empire Network. You might have already seen a slowdown around my network of blogs in May 2007 – it is all related. I am in the process of moving all my accounts to a new host provider this week (MidPhase) and there may be times during this switchover that this site may not be accessible. I assure you that this will be temporary, and I will take all the efforts to make this transition go as smooth as possible. I’m giving myself the entire week for this move and the switchover basically, because I’ve got a lot of blogs to be moved! I apologize for any inconveniences in advance, and hope you please bear with me during this time.

In the meantime, I have decided to just combine my monthly “Sponsorship Appreciation” posts with this message to keep you informed.

If you would like to know more about this move, please go to the HART-Empire Network blog for details and ongoing updates.

I have been posting around the week of the 10th of each month a “THANK-YOU” post, like this one, to all the advertisers from the previous month listed as at month end. That’s a permanent link in this blog, under the category heading which I call .. “Sponsor Appreciation”. I know it’s hard out there trying to figure out where to spend your advertising dollars .. and well .. THANKS for considering the Curling Blog.

I have compiled a new advertising page for the HART-Empire Network of sites for your perusal.

Please Support Our Sponsors From May 2007

Sports Tickets

Interviewing Interesting Bloggers

T D Hedengren’s Blog

All things MMORPG

Everything Xbox Live Arcade

Raise Capital in 90 Days Online – Now!

Thank-You Sponsors!

This blog is intended to be merged with the root CurlingBlog.com site.

In the meantime, I am testing the aggregation of the Sports Channel at HART-Network.com/sports-related/

Greetings ..

I had engaged a blogger last month – just before Christmas, who is an avid curler and fan of the sport, to assist me and eventually take over the writing duties of the CurlingBlog.com. Unfortunately, that just didn’t pan out .. and I am back to where I was .. with a blog not being maintained with the latest curling news.

So – I’ve rigged the front “index” page to display RECENT CURLING NEWS AND SCORES just below the header. I know it’s not much, but at least it’s something for visitors coming to this site via their bookmarks. You won’t be able to see these headlines in your RSS Feed reader of choice, like Bloglines or Google Reader. In the meantime, I am continuing my search.

I am actively looking for potential bloggers to take over the writing duties of this blog. If that interests you, please get a hold of me with some samples of your work, and your ideas how you would fit as writer for this blog.

ALSO: I will be upgrading this blog from an older version of WordPress to the newly to be released version 2.1. I will give a few hours “Heads Up” before I do this, as this blog might be down for the interim time it takes me to convert to the new version.

Thanks! and all the best in 2007~
HART (1-800-HART)

HART-Empire Network II – RSS Feed

Listed above is the Site URL and RSS Feed URL to our “Network #2 Blog” .. over at the HART-Empire Network … I hope you check it out!

HART-Empire Network II is our newest blog that reposts summaries and headlines from 100% of all blogs in our network. So, if you want to see it all in your Bloglines or other feed reader of choice … now all you need to choose is just one combined feed!

(Oh .. you can keep this feed in there too )

Enjoy!