The beginning
Thursday, 7 October 2004
Unfortunately, I made a few changes to the way the site works so I've ended up having to kill all the previous content. I don't think this is a bad thing though, as we can start fresh from when we set of on our journey.
Only three and a half weeks till take off now and we are more or less prepared. We've both been poked with needless, got shit loads of tablets and purchased travel "towels" - I ask you....how the fuck are you supposed to dry yourself with one of them? It's barely fit for buffing a car with. I think I'm going to take a shammy leather instead. That way, if I can't find any decent meat, I can eat it.
I purchased a backpack as well, it didn't seem right at all. I never thought I'd end up being a backpacker. If I come back in a year trying to tell you I'm all wise and shit you have permission to punch me*. One of you, not everyone. Fight amoungst yourselves for the privilage.
Possibly more stuff to come on our preparations if we can be arsed. We'll also let you know and post photos from our leaving party. 6 more days of work to go this year!
* terms and conditions apply
On October 07, 2004, El Weeto said:
COOL URI'S DON'T CHANGE
I don't need to tell you this on a blog, but I wanted to use your crazy post card thing (ah dig it) - GUD LUK.
Travel towels are crap.
And although a backpack might be the most practical option, one of those jumbo suitcases on wheels would be much more entertaining.
On October 08, 2004, Kenneth said:
Beware the travel towel!
For the sake of your fellow travellers, *never* pack your travel towel even slightly damp. It will smell.
It will smell bad.
After 3 weeks you will not smell the smell. But it will be there and people will know.
Dan: why can't I enter my name and email address here? why is the site full of errors? is IE so very bad???
On October 08, 2004, Dan said:
Oops, yeah, sorry, I'm in the middle of playing around with his bit, It'll be fine soon.
On October 08, 2004, Dan said:
All is well in the land of IE now. I think....
On October 15, 2004, Lee said:
Dan, if you're thinking of posting any pictures, you might want to look at http://www.flickr.com/.
In addition to just generally being pretty cool, it will publish directly to MovableType sites. Or, you could use http://www.feedburner.com/ to merge the feed from this site with your Flickr photo steam, and your http://del.icio.us/ link blog if you have one.
For an example, take a look at my feed for the jZone at http://feeds.feedburner.com/The_jZone.
On October 15, 2004, Dan said:
Cheers for the links, Lee. I'll check em out. I've actually already got the photo section sorted out although you can't see it yet as there's no photos. I've kind of explained how I did it in the about section if your interested.