February, 1, 2007 archives

we’re back from our honeymoon, which included seven nights in thailand and another four in hong kong. there are pictures, of course.

and lots of stories. but i think you’re going to have to rely on my wife celia to tell most of those.

soon i will return to posting the technical gobbledygook that everyone complains about.

and wedding photos will also be forthcoming once we’ve sorted through the many, many pictures from our official and unofficial photographers.

one of the things i’m really behind on doing is setting up a good way of backing up all of the photos i’ve taken (and will take in the future). one thing i’ve considered is using amazon’s simple storage system (s3). i have about 25GB of pictures, so unless my math is faulty, it would cost about $5/month to store and $6 (once) to upload them all.

but hey, i’m already paying $25/year for a flickr pro account, and that includes unlimited storage and bandwidth. so now it is just a matter of figuring out how to get all of my pictures over there — easy to do, unless i want to do it right.

doing it right would include synchronizing the photo titles, description, and keywords (tags) between flickr and iphoto, and dealing intelligently with the photos that i have already uploaded to flickr. there’s also the issue of photos that are edited in iphoto, where it would be nice to also have the original (unmodified) photo backed up.

maybe picturesync is much of what i want.

i still want to play with amazon s3, but i have another idea for that: email archiving.

1. downtown clowns
2. formerly a coke bar
3. the peach pit at night
4. where’s the rave?
5. giggle on the nickel