Do you like to listen to music while you work? What kind of tunes make you more productive? I’ve been a Sirius subscriber for almost a year now and a good channel to listen to while working on Thursawday is of course Sirius 19 Buzzsaw (request line: 877-33-SIRIUS -> 877-33-747487)

BTW, happy buzzday, it’s Thursawday #4.

So far today I’ve updated Sawblog to Wordpress version 2.3, released earlier this week. Now includes tagging by default. I’d like to get rid of the black background on the homepage and some other pages to match the design of the blog. I’m thinking this mini-tutorial might come in handy.

Welcome to Thursawday #3!

Mostly a down day for activity around thursawday.com today. Should be much more activity next week. No new project committments for me this week, but instead something fun you can check.

Looking into the future, I saw that my birthday will fall on only two Thursawdays in the future:

• #213 ThurSAWday Sep 29, 2011
• #474 ThurSAWday Sep 29, 2016

You can check what day your birthday falls by doing the following inside the Firefox browser:

1. navigate to the sawvents schedule in the Firefox browser.
2. use CTRL+F to load the find menu.
3. Type in your birthday with the three letter abbreviation for the month and the two digit day. For example, my birthday falls on September 29, so I used sep 29. Case sensitivity doesn’t matter.

How many Thursawday birthdays do you have between now and July 21, 2022?

Say goodbye to the satanic numbering, and soon the black background and red numbering that’s hard on the eyes, the first major Thursawday upgrade is here!

Instead of running for 666 weeks, Thursawday will now be running 777 weeks. Accordingly the sawvents schedule has been updated and the copyright on the footer of the pages is now version 7.77. Today’s Thursawday is highlighted and the past weeks will be struck through as they pass by. PHP coders can view the full sawvents sawce code.

The outside thursawday.com pages will match the design of this blog soon. The work continues — only on Thursawdays.

This means that good health willing, we’ll be rocking the Thursawday projects until July 21, 2022 at least. The biggest change to Thursawday so far already comes on week #2. By my math this means almost 15 years from now. Where will you be in 15 years?

Also added Thursawday #2

1. Google Analytics. Will be used for analytical stats around thursawday.com
2. Thursawday Privacy Policy (also linked on the bottom of the page). Even though we’re not doing a lot of the things listed in the privacy policy at the present time (like taking orders), it’s meant to cover a lot of the things we will be doing in the future (hint, hint). It’s also a requirement for sites using Google Analytics to provide a privacy policy. Now we’re compliant.

Note: on the home page you can read a brief recap of what’s happening on Thursawdays. For the details, be sure to sawscribe to this blog (subscribe to Thursawday via RSS). Remember, updates only on Thursawdays.

Become an official sawizen, register. New things happening every Thursawday. What is your Thursawday project?

Today is the launch of Thursawday.com, thank you for stopping by and welcome to the first website in the world to be updated only on Thursawdays.

Over the (next) first 52 weeks — remember, updates only on Thursawdays — the major interactive components of thursawday.com will be built and rolled out for public use, hence the name “sawft launch” — could have called this an alpha launch or prebeta launch, but it’s really just a sawft launch.

Reasons you should register now
The first thing you’ll want to do is register as a Thursawday contributor. Because it might be way early and unclear why you should register now, here are few reasons:

- you will be among the first to become an official sawizen in the Thursawday community.
Early membership will bring a few special benefits (more on that in the future). Teasing, I know, but you have to take this on faith at this stage in the adventure.
- your sawizen username/password combo will be the only login/identity you’ll ever need at thursawday.com between now and June 4, 2020 on thursawday.com. Reserve your name now.
- you will need this login for most interactive functions of the site so get this out of the way early.
- after the first 66 Thursawdays, effective ThurSAWday #67 Dec 11, 2008, registration and login will be required to leave comments on the sawblog and most, if not all other community areas.
- no CAPTCHA will be required on forms (including comments) for registered/logged in users. Don’t see CAPTCHA in play yet? You will on a future Thursawday
- your email address will NOT BE SOLD OR GIVEN to third parties or partners by KMR Enterprises (that’s our company). If you are concerned then feel free to use a traceable email address. A full thursawday.com privacy policy will be forthcoming and linked prominently in the footer of the home page — hopefully within the first month.
- you’re joining the first sawcial network ever! Eat your heart out MySawce and Fasawsbook.

After signing up, now what?
Start thinking about what project(s) you are going to commit yourself to every Thursawday. Here’s a picture of my first project commitment:

Thursawday #1 activity: update the Sawblog, making at least one post, every week until Thursawday June 4, 2020.

Your project(s) are about you, your business and/or personal lives. The possibilities are limited only by your energy and imagination. A project commitment is different than a goal. A goal is something you’d like to do someday. A project commitment is a plan of action that you will do at least once every Thursawday. How much time you spend working on your project(s) is entirely up to you as long as you work on it at least Thursawday every week.

Don’t worry if you can’t think of something right away. There will be examples to give you ideas and others will be sharing.

What will you get out of Thursawday? How is thursawday.com going to benefit you?
Something valuable I’ve learned is many businesses fail becauase they quit too soon. Some have great ideas, plans and dreams, but the execution over a long enough time is where things fall apart. If long term dedication isn’t there, it’s more difficult to see success.

What do I know about consistency and long term dedication on the internet? I’ve hosted one of the longest running weekly live web radio shows (7+ years and counting). I’ve ran a programming business since 1999. I’ve been blogging consistently — an average of three posts a day, every day — since July 4, 2003. Thursawday.com is my longest reaching and most ambitious web project to date and is scheduled to last at least until June 4, 2020. That’s a few months shy of 13 years. I’m hoping others will want to come along with me and share the consistency and dedication in their own business and/or personal ventures.

Action, not talk
Thursawday is about consistent activity and dedication to projects. You will be able to come here every week and see something new until 2020 from at least one person — me — unless the grim reaper calls. That’s my promise and commitment to this site. The rest of what you, me and other sawizens can do at thursawday.com will become clearer in the coming weeks, months and yes, even years.

Questions? Comments? Feedback?
Right now you hopefully have the basic premise in mind about what this site is about. I’m happy to answer questions below and/or write more posts further explaining where this project is headed.

I encourage you to subscribe to the RSS feed and bookmark the site. I think if you are with us long enough you’ll find this Thursawday experience educational, beneficial and — unlike so many things online that you might get involved with online and not know if it will be here five years from now — Thursawday should be on your calendar until at least 2020.

How many other sites do you visit that have an action plan that far into the future? In a sentence, that’s what Thursawday.com is about. Welcome aboard!