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Break

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Hi all,

Heads up. This is important.

I’ve lost count of how many consecutive days of blog posts that I’ve done on here, but the smart money is on it being each day since January 2012. That’s somewhere around 1375 days, and that’s not a bad effort. Some of you will have read nearly all of them. That’s possibly rather too much commitment, but thanks for your efforts. Your loyalty is appreciated.

For personal reasons, it seems likely that this long-running streak may come to an end in the next short while. If it does, then I’m not sure when it will happen or how long any hiatus may last, but I’ll surely be back at some point.

Probably your best bet is to “like” the blog on Facebook here and you’ll see any new posts pop up as and when they occur. Or you can keep clicking on 6000.co.za, of course. I’m just trying to save you a bit of effort.

Cheers,
6k.

Away

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Being away from home means that I’m totally disorganised. My time management is all over the place and I keep forgetting that I have online commitments like blogging to do, Superbru picks to make, and articles to write.

Fortunately, my phone is always with me, and so currently, the most often updated of my social media accounts is my Instagram.

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Amazingly, it seems likely that I might have a spare moment or two tomorrow, so I’ll try to get some more writing done.

In the meantime – thanks for bearing with me. You’re lovely.

A quota post (with a quota photo of a quota post and link to a post about a post about a post about a quota photo and a quota photo) and another quota photo

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This is getting silly now. Search engines won’t like a title this long (I’ll save you the time: 156 characters).
And my brain hurts.
And do I need an Oxford comma in there… somewhere? I think I probably do.

But anyway, here’s the photo:

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And here’s the link.

Once again, there shouldn’t be any need to feel remorse for posting quota photos or quota posts. Especially if they feature an Imperial Stormtrooper. It’s not as if (as a blogger) your readers are paying for content. That’s not to say that if the time and the impetus are present, you shouldn’t be churning out good quality posts either. It’s just that real life regularly gets in the way of time and impetus being present.

Those of you who read to the end of the title and could be bothered to decipher it, will have realised that a further quota photo is required. Here it is, appropriately thinned down, Micklethwait-style.

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And here’s the original.

Brian, if you’re reading, shall we leave it here? 🙂

A Post about a Post about a Quota Photo

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Because I have previously assured my readership that they will get (at least) one post per day here at 6000 miles…, and because I have other things to do aside from blogging, sometimes, when words or time are hard to come by, I’ll chuck up a quota photo so that even though you haven’t got incisive, witty social comment to marvel at, at least there’s something pretty there.

The Quota Photo moniker came (as he correctly assumes) from Brian Micklethwait of BrianMicklethwaitDotCom, and he has passed comment on both the phenomenon of Quota Posting and a recent Quota Photo that I shared on here.

All this because 6k likes to have something up, often.  And that’s the point of quota posting, for those of us who are suited to it.  If you have reasonable taste, then the mere fact of starting doing a blog posting ensures not only that something will go up, but that, really quite often, something really quite good will go up.  Like this photo, which I consider to be very good indeed.  Often what takes the time, with blogging as with life, is not doing it, but getting round to doing it.  The actual doing is often quickly done, and often very well done.

My thing is this. Not every quota photo will please every reader – I know that many of you come for the dramatic, educated and/or hilarious collections of words that so regularly adorn these pages. But if you don’t like it, don’t read it… or… look at it. You can even ask for a full refund if you wish. Good luck with that.
But just occasionally (and that aerial shot of Piet sê Punt is a good case in point), someone latches onto a quota photo and suddenly, it has more value than a simple placeholder and thus, as Brian points out:

Some of my best blog postings have happened because I wanted to put up any old something, however bad, and it turned out really good.

Whenever and wherever I can, I will continue to get a “real” blog post on here each day. However, when that isn’t possible, quota posts – and especially quota photos – will continue to be my fallback tactic.

And now we all eagerly await Brian’s Post about a Post about a Post about a Quota Photo.

Tomorrow, tomorrow…

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… I’m blogging tomorrow, it’s only a day away.

Have I been in touch? I don’t know, because I’m writing yet another post way in advance.

I’ve checked the Heading North itinerary and we’re supposedly heading back through the Channel Tunnel to Blighty this evening, all of which probably means better connectivity that in France, but potentially not much time to use it in.

Apparently, Eurostar should be getting wifi on board, although on the website, I can only find stuff about connectivity at their stations.

Anyway – the whole tomorrow thing? Normal service , stable ADSL and some proper real-time blogging.

I hope.