Remember when James Kim died this past winter? He's the guy that made a wrong turn off the main road and ended up freezing to death. The really tragic thing is that his friends were tracking him but they didn't really know his itinerary or route so they couldn't be of much help. In the wake of the well-publicized tragedy, I thought for sure that blogs would modify some functions to accommodate a "travel itinerary" mechanism for people planning trips. Since you can post info from mobile devices, if Kim had a known itinerary he could have sent updates from time to time. Blogs should incorporate an optional "deadman switch" which would RSS a warning to a list if the blogger hadn't checked in. Hasn't happened. Oh well.
Well, this isn't a roadtrip in the middle of winter so it's not the same thing, I know. But I'm not a blogger so I thought it would be fun to try it out. I'll see how easy or difficult it is to post from the road. I'm thinking posting notes directly into the blog after the sessions might help me retain and organize more info later, but this is only a test of that.
I'll allow anyone to enter comments, but remember, this is a public blog, one coming from me at the Honolulu Board of Realtors, so don't get weird on me. Don't make have to moderate you -- deal?
Doug
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