life is apparently a mashup of inconveniently coupled events that have little to do with each other. this means that if you are alive you are subject to strange irony. if you choose to ignore this irony then life is probably pretty scratch and sniff to you. if you dont, you contend with ill timed periods of either rapture or melancholy which in the worst scenarios are coupled together.
well this is my forum so i thought i would share some experiential insights on using flickr for photo management. using flickr is fantastic as your photos do not sit stagnantly either on a static web page or on a site that is merely a data vault. it is designed to increase exposure so that if there is some shred of interest someone else has they are able to easily query the meta information you have made available and do an intelligent search to cull your photos. it also provides a nearly infinite amount of storage by only imposing a 4 gigabyte limit per month. this means you could theoretically have 48 gigs of photos on flickr and pay a mere 29.95 per YEAR to store them. this is very cool. its very cool after you get the photos up there. uploading in the windows world is terrible. flickr has a utility that allows you to upload photoraphs with no frills, and no way to edit all of the meta information before you upload. which leaves you to use the flickr organizr, which is a cumbersome slow inadequate but necessary utility. there are quite a few programs and quite a few hacks. i tried out jUploader which is written in java. it is pretty quick, it allows you to edit meta info, and it is low impact. however, it does really dumb things like overwrites all the fields when you do a batch edit even if you are really doing an append. that is stupid. i tried out picajet, a picasa like program that offers flickr uploading directly. many people on review sites swear the program is fantastic. those people are all currently serving time in ‘i dont know what the fuck a good program really is’ land. you will notice the retardo theme here i am trying to find a slick program that uses the flickr uploading api in windows. not going to happen. fortunately for me my transition to linux is becoming more and more an ease-the-pain conversion than it is a ugh-do-i-have-to. and so i will get to use the AWESOME file system plugin that is based apparently on FUSE which will mount the flickr photos online in a virtual file system on my computer. this is important in multiple ways. 1) meta information is all accessible via normal searching parameters locally 2) i can synchronize merely by copying. transparent uploads. love it. 3) synching can be done on a scheduled basis 4) it wont be 4000 years before i post photos. i am being unduly harsh on windows of course. in fact i doubt i will be comfortable in linux until the end of spring 2007 as i will need a full academic year to get through the usability learning curve. and i do know of the picasa + python uploading technique which could be all that and a bag of salt and vinegar. and who knows maybe someone will port the filesystem driver to windows. i dont know if its that easy or not as i have no idea how hard it was in linux. still. i do know that proper local photo management is a priority and i refuse to use some bloat core program like adobe elements or acdsee 8 or flickr organizr to maintain my photos.
many people are dead in ethiopia. but there are ‘new planets.’ voting will occur in november. will it help? more people know about google reverse phone lookup. coffee apparently can give you heart failure if youre not used to coffee. if you are used to coffee it shouldnt do shit. in other news coffee may help fend off diabetes. decisions. updates on the site are forthcoming. though this update of the updates is technically superfluous seeing as how my readership is pretty tiny. if you care to monitor the progress you can use http://bootwala.net
hoge is cool. try to imagine an iceberg. seems pretty cool right? blazin compared to hoge.
ha ha HA you suck blog! yes! blog! you are a VACUUM of suckage! hey blog?! you suck! just some friendly self effacement to charge up the atmosphere with engineered excitement. notable events. its been really hot. i have a new computer and i dont care what you have mine is cooler. i learned about the gripping drama that has taken the geostatistical world by storm. i forgot to eat my oatmeal and therefore was starving by lunch so in compensation i ate too many legumes. george who? i found out that i must not have cut my right hands index fingernail as it is long but the rest are short. today is still tuesday. castro is beginning the lucrative transition from dictator to tupac/biggie 6down celebrity. the other, thing, in the thing, with the thing…dead children. lou dobbs ripped the ambassador to israel a new asshole either against or with cnns permission but either way it was totally a blindside and it was pretty raw. i learned a TINY TINY bit about electric logs and the effect that levels of salinity and porosity have on them. you read this blog. there are pictures of the dashing scott and the slinky cynthia up because jenny threw them a shower and it was good. SCJ SCJ ! if you cant find the link to them you are a pongerlipsomath. so there.
Monthly Archives: August 2006