So many photos…
So, as I had previously stated, I have decided to go farther down the web 2.0 rabbit whole and start using flickr to host my photos. After trying for a couple of weeks to get a plug-in for gallery2 (which I had been using) that would export to flickr to actually work, I just went and checked my backups to see if I had all the pics I had hosted readily available. Since I’m a serious digital pack rat, the answer was yes. I also came upon all of the other pics I had taken with my digital camera. Thus, I am currently uploading ALL of the pics I had taken to my new flickr account.
Now, while the actual mechanics of this import are kind of boring, I’m really enjoying the act of going through all of my old pics. The digital camera I used I recieved as a Christmas gift in 2004, and I had it with me on a regular basis from then until April of 2007. That’s a span of my life that was filled with a lot of change. It’s interesting to look back and reflect on all of the memories from those times in my life. What’s nice is I can look back on those times now and just smile. It was crazy, but my life was good, and for all the change, I’m glad I have both written and photographic evidence of those times.
The other thing I stopped to think about was just how my life on the internet (i.e. this blog) has changed. When I first started blogging over six years ago, I was in the process of coding up my own blog site. I was teaching myself PHP and I was working on doing more complicated design in Photoshop. I built my entire site by hand including it’s photo gallery and guestbook. At times, I’m still really impressed with my handy work, given that I did it all in my spare time. Eventually, maintaining my own site became too much work, as I was tired of dealing with comment spam. So I switched to WordPress for my blog and Gallery2 for my photos. And that was good for a while, until I got lazy about updating my software and I was hacked. I eventually moved to the latest bits (which included easy upgrading and plug-in support), and all was good until I realized I was running low on hosting space. After realizing that I already had Facebook and Twitter accounts, I finally realized hosting my own pics was silly.
So here we are six and a half years later: I’m typing up blog post number 777 as I watch the flickr uploader push another photoset from my life into the cloud. This post will be pushed to multiple RSS feed aggregaters, facebook and livejournal. My twitter feed is hooked into this site and my facebook account. And when I’m done, I’ll have another Web 2.0 site to throw in the mix.
In the words of Dan Spector: Crazy…
