It’s as simple as putting the biscuit in the basket

Well, it was some weekend! Not overly exciting, but I did everything and more on my to-do list!

Saturday started with cleaning my room, and pulling out the clothes which I have been wanting to give to charity. Hopefully the Islamic charity that I donated the clothes to will send it off to Gaza. Next was food shopping and cleaning the car. Then I sat to study a the chapter which I have been studying for the last 3 months; I finally finished it on Sunday! Next came the Google Reader catch-up session; I sat reading approximately 500 posts which were waiting in my reader all week, and I recon I commented on atleast 80-100 posts too! Saturday night ended quite late… well,  late into Sunday morning. On Sunday, after a little more stuying, I watched He Got Game, which stars Denzel Washington. I think I can watch anything which stars Jim Carrey, Will Smith, and Denzel Washington – their acting is pretty immense.

On early Sunday morning, I officially “launched” the 7 posts in 7 days project. I started January with 10 resolutions; my aim was to get life back on track after an indifferent 3 years or so. As part of the changes, I decided to participate in NaBloPoMo; co-incidently, the theme for January 2009 is change. My post on Numbers supplemented my resolutions, and in an attempt to come out fighting in 2009, I began posting something everyday. I wonder how many people, if any have noticed, but I have attempted to accomodate the theme of change in every post that I write; it may be obvious sometimes, and subtle in others, but I want to try and write posts which makes the reader think.

Since this is my first attempt at NaBloPoMo, I decided yesterday to offer my blog to 7 (or more) bloggers for 7 days. I have 2 objectives. My first objective is part of my resolutions – to forge new friendships, and social media is an excellent medium to go about this at this moment in time. The second objective is to get people out and talk about  something which they aim to see or do in 2009. I want to gauge in a “debate” on the theme of change, and I want to know how you the reader see change in 2009.

The rules of this project are simple:

1. Anyone can participate; you dont have to own a blog to take part.
2. You can participate as many times as you want over the 7 days, you are not limited to a single post.
3. The 7 days in question are from Sunday 25th January 2009 to Saturday 31st January 2009. You can participate on one or multiple days – it all depends on how many posts you write!
4. The theme of the post has to be “Change”. The title and content of the post – well that is up to you! It can be a personal post (based on the content of your blog, or experience), it can be a general post, it can be 2 lines, or the works of Shakespeare; quite what you write is up to you…. as long as it has something to do with the theme.
5. In your post, it will be cool to mention your blog or website, and in return, I will direct traffic towards your site via shout outs to the posts and your blog on 3 social network sites. If you want to post anonymously, then that is fine too; I will appreciate the post regardless of the person who is posting!

Another objective which I want to reach, hopefully before the 31st of January, is the 500th commenter. Now, I originally mentioned that the commenter will get a cash prize either in the form of a gift card/voucher (or e-voucher) of their choice, OR I will donate that money to a charity of their choice. I want to extend this prize a little. If the 500th comment comes during the period of the guest posts, I will offer 2 prizes – one for commenter and one for the author of the post. Now, the added incentive is on you to market your posts, and to raise awareness of 7 posts in 7 days. As it stands, we are a 100 comments or so away from 500 commenters.

Ok, so I have highlighted my idea of the project; the next step is – how do you participate? Well your options are -

1. Leave a comment with your interest to post;
2. Drop me an email with your interest to post (biscuitinabasket [at] googlemail [dot] com);
3. Twitter me with your interest to post.

Once I get your message, I will contact you and let you know how you can post. I am arranging for guest logins, but if you are not comfortable with using wordpress, you can always type up a post as you want it to appear (in MS word, or in an email etc), and I will ensure that it is presented well as a post.

If you have any questions or queries, just ask You don’t have to be a great writer to participate…. if you want to take part – you’re in! The earlier you throw your name into the hat, the more shout outs you get! I will be mentioning my posts on Twenty Something Bloggers, NaBloPoMo, and Twitter.

The people who are on the list to take part so far (almost certainly!) are……

Mali from Gone fishing without my GPS

Lili from Lili’s Blog

From… well, no where specific – The Legend of G

HFM from Drinking Raindrops

Antonella… or Anto… or Ace… or Thrice… (one of those four) from From the stupidest corner of my mind

I look forward to cameo posts from silent readers, and passers by… the more, the merrier and better!

Tomorrow is the start of some real change in the world…. what are your views on change? Want to talk about it? I’ll give you the platform… the stage is all yours!