One decision I've had to make is whether to try and post to the blog while we're away. My preference would be to post little and often -- I haven't got a great memory and don't want to be taking notes of everything as we go along, saving it all up for a marathon writing, photo editing and uploading session on our first weekend home -- we have other plans!
The hitch is technology. Ideally, I could take the Kindle tablet and post with that. But... turns out none of the ports are USB and none of them can handle incoming data i.e. uploading photos, even if I were to get an adapter.
We're working on updating drivers and configurations on a very small Linux laptop of Adam's. The issue at the moment is ensuring that it can and will recognise memory cards from the camera.
If all else fails, I am sure I can take a few snaps as we go with my mobile phone and upload straight to Blogger. Posts like that will each be very short: just one photo with essentially a caption. And I'd probably post several times a day, so those of you on my newsletter subscription would get a collection of several short posts each morning.
I'd rather post as normal though - sit in a cafe or pub for an hour every other day and write up my thoughts and our experiences with a selection of nice photographs.
Meanwhile, we're doing all the experimentation beforehand so if it turns out "We don't have the technology", I'll let you know before we leave... and you can sit back and brace yourself for an onslaught of words and images from me in almost exactly two weeks' time...!
Frankly, if it wasn't for the blog, I'd quite like 12 days without any connection to the outside world. Well... I say that now.... but this was pretty much me at regular intervals during my last visit to Scotland's Western Coast.
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Oddly enough, we had great reception in the most uninhabited places like Eigg and Rhum!
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