Your mission..

... Should you choose to accept it!!

I am on a personal mission to visit as many new blogs as possible this week. I think I probably visited thirty of forty new ones tonight, and left comments on about fifty percent of them.

It's very easy to stick to our insulated little blog "circles". To religiously read our friends' blogs, and to never venture further afield.

There are squillions of blogs out there. Last August, a report was done that claimed:

* Technorati was tracking 14.2 million blogs. Today it says it's serving 25.6 million blogs.

* Between last March and August, eight million new blogs had been registered.

* It suggested that the number of blogs was doubling every five months.

* Here we are five months later, and the number has indeed doubled (almost).

* Thirteen percent of blogs are updated weekly or more often.

* Only fifty five percent of bloggers are still going, just three months into their blog sentence.

Now, that's a fair bit of information, right there!!

I am saddened to think of so many blogs falling by the wayside. I fully understand how easy it is to simply lose interest, or to sometimes feel unmotivated to write. For me, the times when I am least inclined to blog are often the best works.

The blog is a cruel mistress. Rewards are sparsely scattered amongst the scribbled pages. Pain and emotion are poured in, in vast quantities. Time, of which we will all come to realise is far too short on this earth, is freely given. Views exchanged, advice delivered, insults hurled, and what does anyone really gain?

I'd imagine, that the human race, sometime in the future, will be wiped from this planet in the blink of an eye. It will probably be a mutated flu pandemic that claims us. Perhaps we will eventually pollute this planet to the extent that it can no longer support life.

Imagine, either a race from another planet, or if the earth re-evolves and humans have a second coming. Imagine the electronic bounty we have left behind. What would someone in the future make of any information they could extract from this massive network of computers?

It's a time capsule. It's the smallest slice of life in the twenty first century. It's the tastiest, smallest slice of cake you've ever tasted. Currently there are 25.6 million ingredients.

There's no time off for good behaviour!!

Give a new blog a well deserved plug, and invite some new people into your circle.

My new blog for today, is based on effort put in. I'm not sure how Captain Kattastic found my page, or what they were looking for. I'm pretty sure what they were looking for wasn't here. They did, however, take the time and trouble to work through quite a few of my inane ramblings and make pertinent comments. Kudos, new friend.

The ambience of the fox's lair is bordering on:

Obsequious.