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Missing Link’s mid-year holiday

Posted by Ken Parish on Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Gummo is sick, Amanda doesn’t have computer access at the moment, Jen is under the hammer to finish assignments for her Masters, and I’m not sure where Stephen Hill and Tim Sterne are (flat out looking for a job in Tim’s case, I suspect).  Gilmae is going on a holiday soon and won’t have computer access either. 

The universe is telling us it’s time for Missing Link to take a mid-year holiday.  It will also give me time to catch up with lots of things I haven’t been getting to, not least helping Nicholas with a new project that needs lots of time put in to get it off the ground. 

Missing Link is therefore officially on holiday until 21 July.



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13 Responses to “Missing Link’s mid-year holiday”

  1. The Worst of Perth said:

    Call it Christmas in July.

    Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 9:50 am | Permalink
  2. skepticlawyer said:

    You deserve a break, Ken - you’ve been flat out with this for ages; you’ve also included all the clever ‘arty’ decorations and uniform structure. That’s hard to do well (and consistently) while still keeping lots of other balls in the air at the same time.

    Enjoy the rest.

    Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 10:13 am | Permalink
  3. Patrick said:

    What SL said.

    You provide a great service to the aussie-bloggy-world.

    Even if I don’t always get the arty deco :(

    Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:05 am | Permalink
  4. Francis Xavier Holden said:

    I’ve always thought a daily round up was a bit of a stretch. How about Mon, Wed and Friday.

    Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 12:47 pm | Permalink
  5. Jacques Chester said:

    FXH;

    I think the idea of moving to a daily roundup was that it kept the workload for any one day manageable.

    Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 2:02 pm | Permalink
  6. Legal Eagle said:

    It’s such a hard time of year at the moment - end of financial year for anyone in business, exam time for students, marking time for lecturers… Definitely a deserved break.

    Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 4:56 pm | Permalink
  7. Ken Parish said:

    We tried 3 times a week and simply found that it made the task of both reviewing and compiling too large and forbidding for each single edition. Doing it daily keeps it manageable, as long as most of us have a more modest amount of time to put in each day. When hardly any of us do it becomes problematic. I’m sure no-one will mind our putting it on ice for 3 weeks or so, and I’m equally sure that sticking with the daily format is the best option upon resumption.

    Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 6:22 pm | Permalink
  8. Martha Maus said:

    Take a break, Ken and Troppodillians; we’ll wait. It’s not as if there’s any real competition for you to worry about.

    Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 2:59 pm | Permalink
  9. TimT said:

    It’s not as if there’s any real competition…

    Cough! Cough!

    Pardon me. I have a slight viral infection. It’s called Selfpromotionus Inflammaticus. I’ll be all right in a few days…

    Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 4:43 pm | Permalink
  10. david tiley said:

    I will stare at my computer for the next three weeks and I. Will. Not. Blink.

    Seriously, youse are heroes and need teh break.

    Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 6:38 pm | Permalink
  11. Pavlov's Cat said:

    What they all said, especially that nice Mr Tiley.

    Posted on 05-Jul-08 at 2:35 pm | Permalink
  12. Colin Campbell said:

    Clearly you are more powerful than you think.

    Posted on 09-Jul-08 at 6:13 am | Permalink
  13. Liam said:

    “Missing Link may drive MPs from power”
    Landeryou’s having delusions of grandeur again.

    Posted on 09-Jul-08 at 10:20 am | Permalink

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